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, ...

Providence, RI---The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their ...

SIR JOSEPH HOOKER in 1869, in undertaking to review a book for a journal of science, made the following remark: “I hope that will give us better analyses of books than reviews in general afford us. We ...