Edward Doolittle's trailblazing work in Indigenous mathematics considers the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of the subject. A Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) mathematics associate ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

The transcendental number π is as familiar as it is ubiquitous, but how does Euler’s number e transcend the ordinary? 4 pieces: 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 = 39.06 5 pieces: 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 32 6 pieces: ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Mathematics is one of the only areas of knowledge that can objectively be described as "true," because its theorems are derived from pure logic. And yet, at the same time, those theorems are often ...

Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote.

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century. The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German ...