Math equations can feel like a banal abstraction without images to make sense of the strings of numbers, letters, and Greek symbols. Consider the Pythagorean theorem, an essential relation in geometry ...

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of ...

Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. But in 1962, the Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó posed the opposite problem. He asked: How long can a simple computer ...