Cause and effect. We understand this concept from an early age. Tug on a pull toy's string, and the toy follows. Naturally, ...

The bunkbed conjecture says that the probability of finding the path on the bottom bunk is always greater than or equal to ...

Yale’s Sam Raskin has solved a major portion of a math question that could lead to a translation theory for some areas of math.

Two mathematicians in Australia now say that the Infinite Monkey Theorem is wrong and monkeys could not write Shakespeare ...

Two young mathematicians, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, made headlines with a groundbreaking discovery in mathematics.

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number ...

Frank Wilzcek, physicist and nobel laureate, visited Purdue as the next presidential lecturer. His lecture included talks of ...

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, ...

Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable — be it a ...

And the course feels like it’s mostly converging with any other set theory course, just with the special feature that everything remains resolutely isomorphism-invariant. This week we constructed N ...