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Diophantus, who likely inherited foundational ideas from Thymaridas of Paros, laid fundamental work for algebra by exploring solutions to linear equations that later influenced modern mathematics.

This is the twenty-third in a series of annual workshops sponsored by the New York Number Theory Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center on problems in combinatorial and additive number theory and related ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

The latest viral travel trend argues that passengers only need to arrive at the airport just 15 minutes before their flight Getty A new TikTok trend called “airport theory” has travelers arriving at ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

I’m teaching Edinburgh’s undergraduate Axiomatic Set Theory course, and the axioms we’re using are Lawvere’s Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets — with the twist that everything’s going to be ...

The idea for this book came about because of my inability to find a book like this. When I taught Principles of Macroeconomics in the past, I was always compelled to assign a collection of outside ...

Sleep Theory’s rise has been swift, but frontman Cullen Moore has been training for it his whole life. Growing up the son of an R&B musician and then following his father’s footsteps in the Army, ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...