Marianne Freiberger

How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.

Quantum particles that are both light and matter help solve infamous NP hard problems.

Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.

Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.

This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Yves Meyer for the development of an incredibly powerful mathematical tool.

Pilot wave theory is an extension of quantum mechanics that doesn't exhibit any of that weird randomness or fuzziness. But that doesn't mean it's totally sane. Here is a quick introduction.

The Kochen-Specker theorem shows that quantum mechanics is always going to be strange. Its proof is surprisingly simple!

How to squeeze infinitely many new guests into a full hotel.

When it comes to the entire cosmos, we humans are incredibly small and insignificant. But that's precisely why we need to take ourselves into account when thinking about the Universe. Find out why.

A brief introduction to the strange theory of quantum mechanics and how it appears to afford a special role to observers.