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

At the height of Europe’s Enlightenment, one man illuminated mathematics like never before — even as darkness claimed his sight. Leonhard Euler unified entire branches of science through logic, ...

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

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, ...

Could math predict humanity’s end? The Carter catastrophe suggests we might be living closer to the finale than we realize.

In recent times, the Federal Ministry of Education has been coming up with some rather bold reforms for education in Nigeria.

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

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.