Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. How do mathematicians decide that something ...

The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable will hold a workshop to consider the “axioms of innovation”, or the underpinning norms, conditions, and culture of innovation environments in the ...

Our culture at the deepest level — perhaps unintentionally — undermines entrepreneurship. It sounds like a crazy idea. We all know entrepreneurs are the economy’s growth engine and key to the future.

There are some ideas that are so widely accepted that people rarely question them. These concepts are deeply ingrained in the human mind and are often accepted without hesitation. Such beliefs often ...

Social axioms are broad, culturally derived beliefs about the nature of the world and its social order, guiding individuals’ interpretations and responses to everyday events. In multicultural contexts ...

His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the consequences. In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt ...