Mathematicians who call themselves ultrafinitists think that extremely large numbers are holding back science, from logic to ...

So is “The Proof” (1997), the popular “Nova” documentary that captured the excitement of Andrew Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. “A Trip to Infinity” has moments of math magic.

See, squares and rectangles have straight lines, so it’s easy to determine their area. A circle, on the other hand, left ancient scholars scratching their heads. One solution: infinity.

The curious minds at Aperture tackle the abstract concept of infinity and the math that attempts to measure its vastness. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in NYC mayoral primary leaves Wall Street ...

Beale was a math major in college and said she thought “Infinity” captured the almost religious zeal of people who devote their lives to the subject. She thought the movie did a good job of ...

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 13, 2022, Section D, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: They’re Taking Jigsaws To Infinity and Beyond.

Based on Robert Kanigel’s well-received 1991 biography of Ramanujan, “The Man Who Knew Infinity” tells a great story. It’s just that it’s a little too by-the-book to make anything other ...

“A good thing in [math] education would be to cut down the content a bit and savor these ideas,” mathematician Manjul Bhargava said during a Zero to Infinity live-streamed panel on the NOVA ...