Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

“Everyone learns many mathematical operations in school: fractions, roots, logarithms, and trigonometric functions […] each ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

Dear Lucas: It seems like once per week, I’m awoken because my neighbor’s teenage kids decide to blast loud music in the middle of the night. I’m considering confronting my neighbors about that, but ...

This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming. View on euronews ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

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 ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

This story about math standards was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and ...