New research reveals that the tendency to feel a shiver down the spine when listening to a beautiful song or looking at a ...

Nutrition labels flaunt calorie counts in bold font. But the amount of energy — or calories — we get from food is affected by ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Currently roundhand capitals (eg u1D49C.alt in NewCM) are selected with an ssXX feature. However Unicode has another mechanism for this using Variation Selector U+FE01 following the script capital ...

Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you. By Siobhan Roberts Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

ABSTRACT: The rich literature concerning “asymptotic behavior of Hankel determinants” concerns the behavior, as the order n tends to ∞, of Hankel determinants whose entries are numbers, e.g., with a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Although Apple touts Math Notes as an interplay of hardware, software, and ...

Scott Taylor receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John and Mary Neff Foundation. Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was ...

Math-M-Addicts students eagerly dive into complex math problems during class. In the building of the Speyer Legacy School in New York City, a revolutionary math program is quietly producing some of ...