Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Number theorists are always looking for hidden structure. And when confronted by a numerical pattern that seems unavoidable, they test its mettle, trying hard—and often failing—to devise situations in ...

Two mathematicians have proven Patterson’s conjecture, which was designed to explain a strange pattern in sums involving prime numbers. In the early 1950s, a group of researchers at the Institute for ...

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions. Number theorists are always looking for hidden structure. And ...