The beauty of math: At some point, all of us — assuming we weren’t asleep or curled up in a ball beneath our desks — have heard a math teacher utter that phrase. Unlike many of you, I understood it ...

There comes a moment in most of our lives when we realize that some secrets of the universe will remain hidden from us–not because mankind hasn’t discovered them, but because those secrets are encoded ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and ...

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics," wrote British number theorist Godfrey Hardy in 1941. Illustration by Traci Daberko In arts or literature, ...

People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that ...

Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a beautiful landscape painting or a piano sonata. Ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical ...

Math governs and describes nearly every conceivable action and structure, from the firing of a neuron to the slant of a ray of light. This video, produced by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux of ...