For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

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 ...

This article is the first part of a series about quantum field theory published by Quanta Magazine. Other stories in the series can be found here. Over the past century, quantum field theory has ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

Join a university ranked in the UK top five for both physics and mathematics research (THE analysis of REF 2021) with an excellent reputation for teaching and learning (a top ten UK university, QS ...

Join a university ranked in the UK top five for both physics and mathematics research (THE analysis of REF 2021), with an excellent reputation for teaching and learning (a top ten UK university, QS ...

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