In her Australia Day address on Tuesday, quantum physicist Michelle Simmons described the changes as a “disaster”, criticising the replacement of mathematical formulas with discurs­ive questions. She ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. In one of David Lodge's comic novels about academia, the ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

At the heart of every resonator — be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone — there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged.