Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.