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Michael Atiyah

Physics

Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis

Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers

News

Mathematician Caucher Birkar

Physics

Kurdish refugee wins the Fields medal - the biggest prize in maths

News

logic

Humans

How to think about... Logic

Features

Australia scores against Finland on 21 June 2018

Physics

More penalty shoot-outs needed to make future World Cups fairer

Comment

Walter Pitts

Life

How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

Features

Silhoutted person looking at stars

Space

I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens

Comment

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

Physics

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

News

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Humans

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Culture

M. C. Escher, Day and Night (1938)

Humans

Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths

Culture

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

Mathematics

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

Awarded every four years, the Fields medals honour the brightest young mathematical talent. We look back at some of the most intriguing past winners

Features

Mathematics

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes

Features

Earth

A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds

News

Physics

Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

Features

Physics

Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair

News