Labs, societies and funding agencies all have logos of one sort or another, but what – if anything – unifies them? Robert P Crease investigates A recent controversy in the US about whether the ...

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 ...

An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most ...