Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the ...

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding.

Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

We readily distinguish regular geometric shapes with features like parallel sides, symmetry, and right angles from irregular ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Study finds baboons and macaques recognize geometric shapes much like preschoolers, suggesting humans are not unique in ...

The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different disciplines – one devoted to abstract thought, the other to feeling. But sometimes the parallels between the two are uncanny. From Islamic ...

This year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics.

Josh Pardon, 37, one of four worldwide to receive the award only given to mathematicians under 40, was recognized for work in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. John Edmark makes his artwork with geometric formulas. Over his career he's studied math, architecture, computer science, art, and animation, and he uses all of them in ...