This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
In Defense of the Reality of Time
A Radical Vision of the Universe Returns to Electrify Physics
Mathematicians Are Building a Unified Theory of Geometric Randomness
The Oracle of Arithmetic Works Best Without Writing Down a Thing
Posse of Mathematicians Bridges Number Theory and Geometry
A new breakthrough that bridges number theory and geometry is just the latest triumph for a close-knit group of mathematicians.
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Machine Learning Works Great—Mathematicians Just Don’t Know Why
Our current mathematical understanding of many techniques that are central to the ongoing big-data revolution is inadequate, at best.
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