What were the most important equations of 20th-century science? Here are 11 essays, aimed at non-specialists, each centred on a different equation. The authors are distinguished in their various ...

The internet is stuffed with online quizzes and surveys, ranging from which "Friends" character you are to who you're about to vote for. But the BBC recently asked something more profound of its ...

British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was one of the most significant figures in the early days of quantum physics, who along with Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. But it ...

To mathematicians, equations are art. Just as many are moved by a painting or piece of music, to those who appreciate and understand math, expressions of numbers, variables, operations and relations ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Symmetry also has an aesthetic meaning, although this is ...

Why is it that particular equations, formulas and expressions become icons, asks Robert P Crease For some people this expression, named after the 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, even ...