After breakfast one morning in August, the mathematician Terence Tao opened an email from three physicists he didn’t know. The trio explained that they’d stumbled across a simple formula that, if true ...

This video explains eigenvalues and eigenvectors in a fresh, intuitive way, focusing on meaning and visualization rather than memorized formulas. Learn how they describe transformation behavior, why ...

A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics. Imagine an archipelago where each island hosts a single tortoise species and all the ...