The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more ...

But even if you disagree with our critique of today’s math curriculum, there is a deeper problem. We never had the ...

In an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can’t switch back with the same person. Math ...

Its writer, Ken Keeler, had to formulate an original mathematical proof to solve a significant plot problem. The bodies and minds of nine characters are mixed up so wildly that it becomes hard to ...