The relationship between a thin liquid film or drop of liquid and the shape of the surface that it wets is explained with a new simplified mathematical formula. Understanding the precise interaction ...

Mathematical formulas written over a hundred years ago could find an echo in the most current theories about black holes and turbulence. This observation links the work of the Indian Srinivasa ...

If you zoomed in on this picture, you could make out thousands of interconnected ellipses. Mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh created them using a series of formulas that he devised and ...

Accountants tell us that numbers don’t lie, because for them numbers are the same as facts. Mathematicians see it differently though. They see numbers as abstract representations of reality that, when ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...