For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

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How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

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, ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

SINGAPORE – Lim Meng Liang, 38, spends most of his time solving the impossible. As a specialist in Diophantine equations – notoriously complex mathematical problems famous for having no solutions – ...

For many young South Africans, the months after matric are marked less by celebration than by uncertainty: a wait for work, for study or for any clear next step. According to the latest Quarterly ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...