You may think that the likes of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are the smartest people who have ever lived, but they ...

His two early papers “What Numbers Could Not Be” (1965) and “Mathematical Truth” (1973) became instant classics. The second ...

On July 13, 1944, in a modest Boston boarding house, William James Sidis was found unconscious. He had suffered a massive ...

Constantine Karatheodori (1873–1950) was a pioneering Greek mathematician whose contributions to real and complex analysis, thermodynamics, and the calculus of variations influenced some of the ...

To find some steadiness and organisation in chaotic life, humans usually find making lists of different things therapeutics, ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

Predictions due to Einstein, the most recently being the advanced Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and other flying objects to venture into the realm of the cosmos. The length of time ...

On Satyendra Nath Bose's death anniversary, we revisit how Einstein’s intervention saved his rejected paper, leading to ...