At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you ...

image: A mathematician from RUDN University developed a matrix representation of set functions. This approach is vivid and easy to check, and it makes the calculations easier. Among other things, the ...

On April 11, 2020, John Horton Conway died of COVID-19 at the age of 82 in New Brunswick, N.J. The areas of research covered by this remarkable mathematician included group theory, node theory, ...

Harold Kuhn, a Princeton mathematician who advanced game theory and brought mathematical approaches to economics, died of congestive heart failure in New York on July 2. He was 88 years old. Kuhn, who ...

The shutdown has rolled into its fourth week, and the hurt is palpable. Federal workers are losing their savings and putting their professional dreams on hold. Their absence is not only affecting your ...

There are those who worry that the mass adoption of something like incel slang gradually validates the worldview it springs from — and there are others who’d dismiss that as the whining of an “N.P.C., ...

It's probably clear to you from my nightly journalistic incompetence, but my day job (at which I'm equally incompetent) is student research based in math and statistics. I've been looking for an ...