University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

Richard Feynman once made a statement to the effect that the history of mathematics is largely the history of improvements in notation — the progressive invention of ever more efficient means for ...

Even within concrete sciences like math and physics, there are plenty of discoveries to be made. From a physicist who is creating a hacker-proof way to transmit information to a mathematician ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

The University of Chicago’s Ngô Bao Châu and Dam Thanh Son are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have been selected as 2013 Simons ...

This article is the first part of a series about quantum field theory published by Quanta Magazine. Other stories in the series can be found here. Over the past century, quantum field theory has ...

Two apparently disjoint subjects discussed in the same issue – quantum uncertainty and the Riemann hypothesis – have a surprising and important mathematical connection. Louis de Branges’s purported ...