Formalism, as set out by those math-saving logical positivists, and others, is where mathematics focuses on axioms — basic assumptions accepted as true, about which you can make inferences using ...

Numbers game: Is math the language of nature or just a human construct? Scientists still debate whether our mathematical models of the universe objectively exist ...

The fine new “Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze” exhibition serves two purposes for the Museum of Science and Industry. It gives the museum a permanent exhibit that covers, in its way ...

Santos: So we may not have a total consensus on the exact nature of math. But whatever it is, we can all agree that math works. We can use it to predict where trash will end up in the ocean.

In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge. All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.

"Math is our one and only strategy for understanding the complexity of nature," says Ralph Abraham, a mathematician at the University of California Santa Cruz, in NOVA's Hunting the Hidden Dimension.

In nature's math, freedoms are fundamental. Story by Samuel Diamond • 58m. N umbers have a funny way about them. Young math students are taught various strategies to make problem-solving easier.

Math is magic. It is the language of the universe in which most laws abide by. Galileo said that “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics,” and on Nov. 23, we reflect on how a ...

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They're instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, ...

Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course I somehow forgot to attend, or that I faked my way ...