This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Peter Watson, Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton ...

The Language of the Universe: The description of mathematics as the "language of the universe" is profoundly fitting, reflecting its position as the unseen, pervasive thread that ties the cosmos and ...

Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an ...

Is math invented by humans, or is it the language of the universe? Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math ...

So what could possibly connect aliens and us? A new study suggests the answer is mathematics. The researchers argue that math ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

Michel Talagrand is the 27th recipient of the Abel Prize, which was first awarded in 2003. Peter Badge / Typos1 / Abel Prize 2024 The 2024 Abel Prize—the mathematics world’s Nobel Prize equivalent—has ...