At the height of Europe’s Enlightenment, one man illuminated mathematics like never before — even as darkness claimed his ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...

The Punjab School of Mathematics, originating from Sarvadaman Chowla's 1925 paper, celebrates its centenary alongside Prof.

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Jack Ciattarelli may be the Trump-backed nominee for governor of New Jersey, but he’s outlined a Reaganomics plan if elected this week. And no one can say exactly how the math adds up. He wants to ...

Mathematician Mikhail Ganzhinov found new records for kissing numbers in 10, 11, and 14 dimensions, proving human insight can ...

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...