Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Congrats! 7-year-old Theodore Kwan has set a new national record as the youngest candidate to sit for the International ...

Ashley Sanchez told Newsweek she was baffled by her son’s homework assignment, but she spotted one word that changed ...

Is artificial intelligence replacing human genius in mathematics, or redefining it? From the Navier-Stokes mystery to ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

Leeds is set to become the UK's first City of Maths, a new two-year initiative aimed at transforming the way people think and feel about the subject. Launching in January, it will bring events ...

While other New Year's Eve First Night stages around New Jersey and the U.S. have long since disappeared, the townwide, family-friendly celebration continues to draw a crowd in Morristown. This year, ...

Welcome to the newsletter’s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos – and check back on 26 December to see how you fared Good morning, and happy ...

By that math, your typical American man would be smart to claim Social Security at age 62, the first year of his eligibility.

Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, three years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. Only 53 per cent of ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...