Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Number theorist Yitang Zhang receives the Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award for his exploration into the nature of prime numbers Yitang Zhang may not be a household name, but in the world of ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

Mathematics majors study the relationships between numbers, structures and patterns. Their classes range from algebra to statistics, and the concepts build on one another. Students learn skills like ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. In May, a ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

We explore the Hardy–Ramanujan number to explain two things about the legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, on ...

Mathematics is separated into several fields, including algebra, calculus, geometry, number theory, statistics, and others, each of which plays a different role in creating scientific, economic, and ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...