Math

The French mathematician was cited “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets.”

19th-century mathematicians thought the “roots of unity” were the key to solving Fermat’s Last Theorem. Then they discovered a fatal flaw.

Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine.

The simple Möbius strip illustrates a deep mathematical challenge that has long tormented the field of symplectic geometry.

The surprising mathematics of the extremely rare.

The ancient study of an object’s curvature is guiding mathematicians toward a new understanding of simple equations.

Nature makes chance, humans make luck.

The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.

Can you turn a two-dimensional fractal into a 3-D object? Break out your scissors and tape for a chance to win a 3-D printed sculpture.