In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

p-Adic analysis introduces non-Archimedean number fields into the toolkit of theoretical physics, offering a framework in which hierarchical and ultrametric structures are treated on the same footing ...

To a nonmathematician, having the letter “i” represent a number that does not quite exist and is “imaginary” can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, ...