The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote ...

"I joined the air force 35 years ago, aged 18, and went straight to Germany, based on a Tornado aircraft," says British Air Commodore Andy Turk, who is now deputy commander of the Nato Airborne ...

As that comment highlights, evidence is often contested and proof elusive, including during the pandemic, when many experts were urging governments to “follow the science”. But that irate ...

Pythagoras was not simply interested in the number three. He was fascinated by numbers in general. He viewed them as the key to understanding the universe as a whole. His investigation into the nature ...

Following a program that Katz and Terence Tao had laid out back in 2014, they examined a pesky class of Kakeya sets. Their proof showed that every set in that particular class had a dimension of three ...

Jonathan Powell, the UK national security adviser, was “intimately involved” in helping Ukraine and the US reach a ceasefire deal to put to Russia, according to government sources reported by ...