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How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever

RJ Andrews

Electronics

Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?

John Horgan | Opinion

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Ukrainian Mathematician Becomes Second Woman to Win Prestigious Fields Medal

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

The Elusive Origin of Zero

Who decided that nothing should be something?

Shaharir bin Mohamad Zain and Frank Swetz | Opinion

Statistics

How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever

RJ Andrews

Electronics

Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?

John Horgan | Opinion

Mathematics

Ukrainian Mathematician Becomes Second Woman to Win Prestigious Fields Medal

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

Mathematics

Mathematicians Are Trying to ‘Hear’ Shapes—And Reach Higher Dimensions

Rachel Crowell

Special Report

2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners

2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners

Six $3-million prizes awarded to advances in neutrino particle physics, topology, optogenetics and more

Videos

How to Calculate a Bigger Slice of Pi

For thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes on have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.

March 14, 2017

The Sciences

The Math behind the Polls

November 29, 2016

The Sciences

Math Puts a New Twist on Solving a Rubik's Cube with the Fewest Moves

October 26, 2016

The Sciences

Solving the Rubik's Equation

October 24, 2016

The Sciences

Ants versus Plants: Networks Need Complexity for Resilience

March 30, 2016

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Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy

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Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy

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