For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The Doodle shows how the parabola changes with different numbers, making learning math fun and interactive for students.,, ...

The Powerball jackpot for Monday, Nov. 10 is an estimated $492 million after no one took home the top prize on Saturday, Nov.

Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

It didn’t prepare me academically, but it did make me resourceful. When you grow up having to make things work with nothing, ...

This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s series “The New Conspiracy Age,” on how the present boom in conspiracy theories ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the ...