Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

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As the number of underage students who gamble increases, some argue that schools should add gambling literacy to their curricula.

A new diplomatic offensive against foreign privacy laws collides with fresh research showing that weakening data sovereignty protections is the last thing organizations need right now.

When government policy suppresses revenue and simultaneously raises costs, the numbers eventually force an outcome, our ...

Developers are not political actors when they underwrite a project— they are mathematicians, our columnist writes.

During his lifetime, Professor Stephen Hawking achieved a rare status, that of a celebrity theoretical physicist. Even those ...

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Mr. Summers, former president of the school, had stepped back from teaching after documents showed a closer relationship to ...