In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

In 1978 Steve Fisk, a mathematics professor at Bowdoin College in Maine, US, came up with a proof—considered one of the most ...

As GST cuts make petrol and diesel cars cheaper, buyers are redoing their math. EVs still save on running costs, but the ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

A list of shows, broken into subjects, that kids love for their entertainment and parents love for their educational value.

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day ...

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Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

For years, I thought I had a money problem. Turns out, I had a planning problem. I could track every expense, stick to a ...

Many attorneys enter the profession believing they’ve left numbers behind for good. After all, law school trains the mind for words, not equations. Yet financial literacy is emerging as an essential ...

Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...