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In my last column, I tackled the topic of beauty. I tried to identify whether beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder (subjective beauty) or whether it is universal (objective beauty). And like a good ...

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics," wrote British number theorist Godfrey Hardy in 1941. Illustration by Traci Daberko In arts or literature, ...

Last week, Yitang “Tom” Zhang, a popular math professor at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the world of pure mathematics when he announced that he had proven the “bounded gaps” conjecture ...

The finest reflection on creativity I know of, capturing the magic and transience of its gifts, is not the work of an artist. Its author did not paint, sculpt, write or compose, though he appreciated ...

We use math everyday — from calculating tips at restaurants to baking a pie (not pi) to banking. It can start to feel like a bit of a slog doing all this basic adding and subtracting, so I invite you ...

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A detail of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal named after Benoit Mandelbrot, the French mathematician who investigated it in the 1970s. If you were to zoom in at any point on the intricate, wiggly line, ...