Math

Bowls from the Halafian culture of Mesopotamia suggest people used art to enumerate their rapidly changing world

Adam Kucharski’s 3 greatest revelations while writing <i>Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty</i>

What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe

Patchen Barss on his 3 greatest revelations while writing <i>The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius</i>.

The secret sauce is the real world.

Anil Ananthaswamy’s 3 greatest revelations while writing <i>Why Machines Learn.</i>

With the NBA Finals upon us, a mathematician revisits the famous paper that claims a player's hot streak is an illusion.

There are no such things as coincidences.

Why scientists can’t quit chalk, even in the digital age.

Three computer scientists disprove a long-standing idea about imperfect information.

Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up.

Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.