It might sound strange to think about physics (which often involves a lot of theory and hypotheticals) helping people solve mathematics problems. However, physics follows many math patterns very ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical way of thinking into the world of physics. At the time, physicists ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hilbert's sixth problem was one of the loftiest. He called for "axiomatizing" physics, or ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...

Nobel committees recognized the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) in two of this year’s prizes — honouring pioneers of neural networks with the physics prize, and the developers of ...

Artificial intelligence startup BeyondMath Ltd. said today it has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round to train its foundational large language models on physics equations, as part of its ...

A single X thread on 12 July turned into a viral classroom discussion when Telegram founder Pavel Durov urged students to “pick MATH.” He framed the subject as a boot camp for logic—something every ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. Every four years, soccer fans eagerly await the sport’s biggest event: the International Federation ...