With a shrewd eye for topics both obscure and practical, Pitici chooses a variety of thoroughly accessible works that tie abstract math to the real world in this eighth installment of the annual ...

Pitici, a teacher of math and writing at Cornell University, continues the series he has edited since 2010, collecting another wonderful variety of mathematical writings, this time with a distinct ...

Emily Riehl thinks hard about objects that don't exist in the material world yet mysteriously seem to underlie many things that do. These objects have no concrete existence of their own, but they do ...

Helena Osana receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié ...

Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...