In a recent X exchange, Telegram founder Pavel Durov urged students to study math for its logic and problem-solving power. Elon Musk replied, advocating for physics—with math. Their posts have ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites nominations for Simons Investigators in Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics and Computer Science. Within the Physics program, ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Some of the world's top mathematicians and theoretical physicists gather on campus this weekend for a conference in honor of one of the pioneers of the field, Professor Albert Schwarz of the UC Davis ...

Classical physics is characterized by the equations describing the world. Yet our day-to-day experience is struck by this deterministic vision of the world. A physicist has been analyzing the ...

A viral X thread sparked a debate between Pavel Durov and Elon Musk, igniting a discussion on whether math or physics is more crucial for aspiring entrepreneurs. Durov championed math for its ...

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Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.