In “Defending the Axioms,” Maddy describes the way we’ve gone from mathematics being seen by Plato as an eternal form, like truth or beauty, to identifying math and science as almost one ...

Understanding the famously complex Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory could solve mathematics' greatest problems.

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using ...

The etymology of such symbols is, of course, often punctuated by inevitably fuzzy interpretation. In “The Language of ...

She saw her math courses as a curricular hurdle that only geniuses could really excel in. “I’d have rather had all my teeth pulled than do it for a living,” she said. But in her sophomore year, her ...

Formalism, as set out by those math-saving logical positivists, and others, is where mathematics focuses on axioms — basic ...

In “The Language of Mathematics,” Raúl Rojas gives us a survey, from the Greek cross (for the arithmetic operation of addition) to the earliest use of the concept of zero.