Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says —resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing ...

When it comes to teaching math and science, is the grass always greener across the Pacific Ocean? “I'm working with educators to help prevent students from hating math before they even know what it is ...

Time travel has been the staple science fiction books and movies for many years. Most who have read or watched content focusing on time travel knows about the paradox issue. Perhaps the best example ...

The Axiom of Choice became one of the most feared and contested ideas in mathematics. It created elegant theorems and ...

But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports ...

Ambiguity and its cousins, contradiction and paradox, are everywhere in mathematics, both in content and thinking. Strangely, the subject that appears to be the very paradigm of reason, and that is ...

We recently wrote about how infinitely large sets are not all the same size as each other, but we were a bit vague about what we meant by a set. The people who invented set theory also started out ...

No less a mind than Bertrand Russell, of Principia Mathematica fame, was responsible for this paradox, which opened a hole in math. It’s those barbers. The Barber Paradox shows that barbers are not to ...