Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...

Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are analogous to tulip bulbs. As mathematicians work to solve them, they ...

Apple improved the Math Notes feature in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, allowing users to input equations to create graphs in three dimensions. With ‌iOS 26‌ and ‌iPadOS 26‌, when you write an equation with ...

Courtesy of Washington and Lee University. Kumudu Gamage, a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Washington and Lee University, recently co-authored an article which appeared in the ...

How can we study phenomena that go beyond the three dimensions of the world we know? For his research on "synthetic dimensions", Konstanz-based physicist Oded Zilberberg was awarded an ERC ...