Math is all over "Infinite Jest," for instance. Students at the novel's tennis academy obsess over equations, not only to keep score in tennis and other, more eccentric games but also to calculate ...

Cantor’s radical idea was to introduce, in a mathematically rigorous way, absolute infinities to the realm of mathematics.

With a surprising new proof, two young mathematicians have found a bridge across the finite-infinite divide, helping at the same time to map this strange boundary. The boundary does not pass between ...

Yet even such unimaginably large numbers are vanishingly small, compared with infinite sets, which have played an important role in mathematics for more than 100 years. Simply counting objects ...

even if that collection is infinite. This makes Banach-Tarski a Rorschach test for working with infinity: Many see the paradox as wondrous; critics like Wildberger cringe. But most mathematicians ...

The joy of mathematics – this is what the biennial Hang Lung Mathematics Awards (HLMA), now in its seventh cohort, is all about. This year’s Gold Award went to Bishop Hall Jubilee School and ...

When he died at just 58 in 1912, the French Minister of Education called him “a kind of poet of the infinite ... Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Fields Medal.

Mathematics provides amazing tools for science ... Through research, you can explore infinite possibilities, think critically, create innovative solutions to problems, and learn more about the ...

Several years ago, I tried to explain infinity to a class of fifth graders. In the story that I told them, I was preparing to eat a piece of cake when a friend walked in on me. Being polite, I ...