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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former graduate student reflects on how Isadore Singer, who died on February 11, brought together mathematicians, physicists and anyone else interested in the deeper connections between diverse ...