Mathematics

Plato was right: newborns do math

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

The celebrated nurse improved public health through her groundbreaking use of graphic storytelling

Who decided that nothing should be something?

Maryna Viazovska, who works on the geometry of spheres, is one of four winners of the coveted prize this year