Soon after it was released a few short years ago, I began to delve into Steven Wolfram's new book, "A Fundamental Theory of Physics." I have followed his work since the early '90s when I first used ...

In an editorial published by the American Mathematical Society, mathematicians from the US Naval Academy and the University of Washington noted that, because so much mathematical research is now ...

Science advances by overturning theories, replacing them by better ones. Sometimes the old theories continue to serve as valuable approximations, as with Newton’s laws of motion. Sometimes the older ...