Cutting-edge mathematics today, at least to the uninitiated, often sounds as if it bears no relation to the arithmetic we all learned in grade school. What do topology and combinatorics and ...
Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...
Ultracold atomic gases have long served as a textbook paradigm of many-body physics, allowing studies of, say, Bose–Einstein condensation and superfluidity, in clean and well-controlled environments.