When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...

Chinese mathematicians have resolved the loose end of a “doomsday hypothesis” that had long puzzled the mathematical community. The feat was made possible through major computational methods which ...

Informally, a dynamic system is any physical system that evolves with time (e.g., a pendulum, a planet orbiting the sun, the weather, etc). From a more mathematically precise perspective, one can ...

Entanglement is a resource that is utilized on quantum devices to cary information on quantum bits (qubits), and is what gives a quantum computer its theoretical advantage over its classical ...