For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved a math puzzle that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y, and z ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Teachers have always had a rough time trying to arouse their students’ interests in certain topics, math especially. To address this educational setback, one math teacher from Taiwan decided to create ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi ...

Aggie Gambino helps one of her twin 10-year-old daughters, Giuliana, work on math worksheets as they go through homework from school at the dining room table in their home Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in ...

Albert Einstein is widely seen as the greatest mind of the 20th century, but he was still a human being. Indeed, for all Albert Einstein's legendary breakthroughs in physics, he wasn't perfect, and he ...

This question is meant to be provocative, and it was inspired by a Tweet from an economist named Dr. Julie Pierce. The longer the crisis goes on and the more comments I read, the more I wonder how ...