
6 Marvelous Math Stories from 2022
Math made a splash this year. Here’s a look at the fascinating discoveries, mind-bending quests and important events in mathematics in 2022
Math made a splash this year. Here’s a look at the fascinating discoveries, mind-bending quests and important events in mathematics in 2022
Prolific generation of data drove the need for prefixes that denote 1027 and 1030
Mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood seeks creative ways of solving open math problems
After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analogue of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis
Some voting districts are tilted intentionally toward one party or another—a factor in the midterms. Geometry plays a critical role in gerrymandering
Mathematician Frank Ramsey showed how to discover coherent patterns among a multitude of number groupings
Math helps to randomly select the fairest citizens’ assemblies since antiquity
Some mathematicians have sought a logical proof for the existence of God. Here’s what they discovered
Who decided that nothing should be something?
The celebrated nurse improved public health through her groundbreaking use of graphic storytelling
Maryna Viazovska, who works on the geometry of spheres, is one of four winners of the coveted prize this year
An intriguing question about drums kicked off decades of inquiry
His groundbreaking work combined the mathematical field of topology with string theory
Dennis Sullivan’s work has advanced the study of shapes, and he developed tools that have helped to solve many mathematical problems
More than 50 years after the seeds of a vast collection of mathematical ideas called the Langlands program began to sprout, surprising new findings are emerging
Everyone knows that history's great mathematicians were all men—but everybody is wrong
For years, concerned researchers have been calling for a boycott of the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians
Critics accuse the organization of opposing efforts to stamp out inequity
A set of puzzles called Diophantine problems are often simple to state but hard to solve—though progress could have big implications for the future of mathematics
A new model could help model disease transmission and urban planning
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