This year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics.

The mathematics professor has won a prestigious Fields Medal for his work at the intersection of geometry, topology and ...

The study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young humans.

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding.

Sam Raskin has wrapped his head around a math problem so complex it took five academic studies — and more than 900 pages — to solve. The results are a sweeping, game-changing math proof that was ...

(Cavan Images/Raffi Maghdessian/Getty Images) If you've ever gone hiking and reached a fork in the trail, you may be ...

But according to a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some monkeys may ...

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman ...

Testing 79 adults from Bolivia’s indigenous Tsimane’ farmer-forager population, who do not undergo formal U.S.-style ...