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Duolingo, the popular language-learning platform, has announced the launch of its first app outside of language called Duolingo Math. The company has opened…

In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what we now call a rotating black…

Once found, these inscrutable rules have helped particle physicists calculate scattering amplitudes at much higher levels of precision than they could…

The goal here is to trace out triangles on top of these lines such that the triangles satisfy two requirements: First, no two triangles share an edge.…

In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal—the highest honor for a mathematician—Russian tanks and war planes…

as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared Duker Lichtman, a 26-year-old graduate student…

“ homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno of the Institute for Advanced…

Number theorists are always looking for hidden structure. And when confronted by a numerical pattern that seems unavoidable, they test its mettle, trying…

If we use the single digit version in which π = 3, what would happen to our height calculation? The answer: nothing.Remember that the basic trig functions…

Forcing a ball to travel between different wells, looking for the deepest. Credit:…