A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...
The evolution of the so-called dread risk response has been explained by new research. People often respond to ...
For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.