Eugenia Cheng wears many hats: mathematician, pianist, professor, author and scientist-in-residence at The School of The Art ...

When we're ruminating or worrying, it's often because we have a complex problem to solve. Mathematicians solve complex problems, but do it in a systematic way. They have a process that helps them ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a theoretical cosmologist at the University of Cambridge and director of the ...

As I pointed out in a previous Spectator article, "What is the Scientific Theory of Intelligent Design?" it takes a lot of faith to not believe there was intelligent design (ID) involved in the origin ...

Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...