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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The importance of math literacy cannot be overstated (“Math crisis began a decade ago and has only ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer ...

For almost two centuries, mathematicians believed there was no general solution for certain high-degree polynomial equations. Now, two Australian researchers—Norman Wildberger and Dean Rubine—have ...

Unless you do it in your day to day job, math can be very easy to avoid once you graduate from school. Suddenly those long, complicated equations that your math teacher swore would be trivial are so ...

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi bashed journalists a second week in a row, this time for not taking “45 seconds” to determine that the positive GDP news this week was nothing to be excited about because, he said, ...

A seemingly simple math problem has gone viral this week, leaving people totally stumped on social media. The equation in questions is: 15 - 15 × 4 ÷ 2 = ? At first glance, it looks like a basic grade ...

For the first time in many years, changes are coming to the way water quality is monitored at local beaches. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is implementing an added water testing tool. A ...

Most famous equation: Einstein's E = mc2, which means energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. Known digits of pi: More than 105 trillion digits Digits of pi NASA uses for equations: ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematical prodigy born in 1887, saw mathematics as a path to God. He attributed his intuitive discoveries, particularly in infinite series, to divine inspiration received in ...