There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A clue in the New York Times’s “The Mini Crossword” on Tuesday has the internet buzzing: Did Albert Einstein flunk math class in school? The allegation was first detailed in an ...

Emmy Noether is the most accomplished mathematician you probably never heard of. She helped Albert Einstein with the math required to formulate his Theory of Relativity. And then she came up with what ...

Consider the tiles on a bathroom floor or wall; they’re often arranged in a repeating pattern. But is there a single shape that tiles such a surface — an infinite one — in a pattern that never repeats ...