Known as the “problem of points,” or “problem of the division of the stakes,” this puzzle stumped mathematicians for more ...
Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...
Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...
In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...
Creative dice ideas for fun and productivity: use dice for writing prompts, workouts, math games, art inspiration, and DIY ...
A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical metric and curvature.
Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, tapped two undergraduate students to verify his ...
One of differential geometry’s most challenging problems has finally been solved after 150 years, with a closed surface Bonnet pair.
A GCSE Maths video about what bearings are and how to use them. This video explains four key bearings facts needed for GCSE Maths and applies them to solve a tricky riddle. Find out more about GCSE ...