A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Four women researchers were selected from among 150 applicants, the highest number in the past five years of the ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

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

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