The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

STEM: science, technology, engineering, and of course, mathematics. It’s time for math to take centerstage. When most people talk STEM, they’re likely focused on S-T-E. If math is at all mentioned, it ...

Over the past century, quantum field theory has proved to be the single most sweeping and successful physical theory ever invented. It is an umbrella term that encompasses many specific quantum field ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves. Like many people who would ...