Mathematics

Play this simple math game with your friends to gain insights into fundamental principles of graph theory.

The American mathematician invented entire new ways to understand shapes and spaces.

The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains how the conversations with experts in his new Quanta Magazine podcast address his lifelong fascination with timeless mysteries.

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of unit fractions.

A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

Dynamical systems can be chaotic and impossible to predict, but mathematicians have discovered tools to help understand them.

How to win games by going second and leaving your opponent with no good options.

Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures.

Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.