There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from? Finding out if they are, in fact, constant is the key to ...

The 30-year-old math sensation Peter Scholze is now one of the youngest Fields medalists for “the revolution that he launched in arithmetic geometry.” In the run-up to the presentation of the Fields ...

Mathematicians may have come up with a 'Rapunzel Number' that can predict the shape of any ponytail - solving a problem that has perplexed hairdressers since Leonardo da Vinci posed it 500 years ago.

Ian Stewart is a mathematician at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. His new book “In Pursuit of the Unknown” is published by Basic Books in the United States in March. In the United ...