This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American My first musical love was Beethoven. The 2nd ...

Partition theory studies the ways in which a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers, without regard to order. Originating in the work of Euler, it has evolved through the ...

A new breakthrough that bridges number theory and geometry is just the latest triumph for a close-knit group of mathematicians. One of the first collaborations Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang ever undertook ...

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, ...

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, ...