Yaroslav Sergeyev has invented a new kind of arithmetic and patented the "infinity computer" in the U.S. and Europe. Yaroslav Sergeyev, one of Russia’s most prominent mathematicians and a ...

For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...

Cheng (How to Bake π), a scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and honorary fellow at Sheffield University, tackles some difficult concepts in this superb study of the ...

athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

A circle is also a triangle and a triangle is a square. Sound impossible? Not in the realm of topology, which even applies to 3-dimensional spaces and anything from donuts, UFOs and potatoes. The ...

The academic world has always taken “great interest” in Indian mathematical genius Srinavasa Ramanujan’s path-breaking works, but the Hollywood film The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel, has ...

Last week, my first grader came home with thoughts about math (I love it when she does that!) She said that, since one hundred plus ten was “one hundred and ten”, that, therefore, infinity plus ten ...

Hardly anyone saw the film The Man Who Knew Infinity in theaters, at least in American theaters. It was well-received in India and will probably cause us to see more UK/India crossover films such as ...