This film discusses the concept of functions in mathematics, emphasizing their importance and modern formulations. It explains how to create ordered pairs from a set of numbers and illustrates how ...

Lashi Bandara is affiliated with Australian National University. These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage to provide an answer but it ...

PROOFS are the currency of mathematics, but Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the all-time great mathematicians, often managed to skip them. Now a proof has been found for a connection that he seemed to ...

Mathematicians used “magic functions” to prove that two highly symmetric lattices solve a myriad of problems in eight- and 24-dimensional space. The points could be an infinite collection of electrons ...