Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa. In 1912, Albert Einstein, then a 33-year-old theoretical physicist at the Eidgenössische Technische ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole ...

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“I got hooked on the interplay of physics and mathematics while I was still at high school,” says 30-year-old Sylvain Lacroix, who was born and grew up near Paris. “It was fascinating to learn ...

The connections between mathematics and physics are manifold, and each enriches the other. But the relationship between the disciplines fluctuates between intimate harmony and cool indifference.

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