BENGALURU: Are the choices we make a result of our own free will, or are there unseen forces shaping our decisions? It’s one of those timeless philosophical questions that has fascinated thinkers for ...

Amir D. Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem-- which the publicity sheet for his new book reminds us was memorably praised in The New Yorker as "a mathematical bonbon of a book" -- has chosen for ...

When I tell someone I am a mathematician, one of the most curious common reactions is: “I really liked math class because everything was either right or wrong. There is no ambiguity or doubt.” I ...