Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Quantum computing may prove to be an existential threat to Bitcoin, but human panic and slow preparation are bigger ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

The date sheet has been designed with adequate gaps between major subjects to ensure that students have sufficient time for preparation.

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

Dylan Gage, a second-year student double majoring in physics and mathematics, is now a Goldwater Scholar. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship Program is “one of the oldest and most prestigious ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...