Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Associate Professor Zsuzsanna Dancso walked into her first advanced mathematics lecture at the University of Sydney in 2020, the ...

President Trump signed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act into law, requiring the IRS to provide a clear explanation of tax-filing errors to ...

Even as the bombs fall in Ukraine, precisely following trajectories defined by equations, Ukrainian and Russian mathematicians, among others, gather in sunlit rooms beside tranquil Yanqi Lake in an ...

Jacques Conradie, Kemoratile Nyundu, Olwethu Ndebele, and Talea Papa pose for a photo. Photo: Duduzile Khumalo 18 bright young finalists gathered for the 24SumMore Maths Competition finals at ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Google Doodle: On 12 November 2025, Google has launched a special animated Doodle titled “Learning the Quadratic Equation (India)” a vibrant tribute to one of the most searched and wide-ranging ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...