Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

“Crystal Math” uses equations—and minimal resources—to rapidly predict the 3D structures of molecular crystals, which could speed up R&D for drugs and electronic devices. Researchers at New York ...

Parents whose children are struggling with math often view intense tutoring as the best way to help them master crucial skills, but a new study released on Monday suggests that for some kids even that ...

Four scientists debate whether math is an inherent part of the universe, or merely how our brains cope with - and explain - our environment. Math describes and predicts the world all around us -- from ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

Math as both profession and course of study can be a hard sell, something even Don Draper might have trouble pitching. The field unites numbers, theories, and ideas that, yes, can be physically ...

Math is everywhere: medicine, sports, banking, gambling, National Security Agency espionage. And then there’s science, which has adopted math as the preferred method of description for life, nonlife ...