3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (514+ words) The wormholes are known as Langlands correspondences, and the decades-long effort by hundreds of mathematicians to extend and exploit these correspondences is the Langlands program. Because it suggests an underlying unity to the universe of mathematical truths, the Langlands program…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (543+ words) The proof of a “blowup” has blown up the mathematics community. This particular difficult problem deals with differential equations, which express relationships between changing quantities. They are arguably the single most important mathematical tool for explaining the world around us....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (234+ words) In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1836+ words) Chanelle Nibbelink for Quanta Magazine Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app, or you can stream it from Quanta. JANNA LEVIN: Thank you so much for being here. I’m Janna Levin. STEVE STROGATZ: And I’m Steve…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1437+ words) DVDP for Quanta Magazine The week before Christmas 2025, five mathematicians were holed up in a classroom at ETH Zurich. The mood was electric: They were this close to a career-defining breakthrough. The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin (opens a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1320+ words) Ada Zejun Shen for Quanta Magazine So, how evenly can you assemble the teams so that they have matching firepower in every category, from Greek mythology to college basketball? You can always make the teams surprisingly even, according to researchers…...