Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

In many cases, parents or school administrators push back against a child’s deserved bad grades or their need to repeat a ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Mathematicians have discovered a new infinity, one that is so strange that it could change how we understand logic, numbers ...

Heine Borel and the Finite Subcovers, a band composed of Notre Dame honors math graduates, now has their work out on vinyl.

Ken Ono had an epiphany. Now the professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence.

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into mainstream culture and serious philosophy. Now a new wave of theoretical work ...

What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research suggests computational difficulty depends on observer limits.

The peer-reviewed study, "The Earth4All scenarios: Human well-being on a finite planet towards 2100," uses a system dynamics-based modeling approach to explore two future scenarios: Too Little Too ...