Numbers like pi, e and phi often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence also seem inexplicably widespread in nature. Then there's the ...

Edward Rothberg is CEO and Co-Founder of Gurobi Optimization, which produces one of the world’s fastest mathematical optimization solvers. As the great William Shakespeare once wrote, "What’s in a ...

While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...