There's a part of the brain that enables us to perceive magnitude -- we can compare loudness when hearing different tones or compare the number of dots in a group at a glance. Neuroscientists have ...

Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Kashiwara is known for building bridges across seemingly distant branches of ...

This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks—a sort of potato-stamp method—Frank ...

Department of Mathematics, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, China. In mathematical physics, many significant phenomena and dynamic processes can be ...

An international team of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical "structure" which was described more than a century ago. Mapping the 248-dimensional structure, called E8, took four years ...