We've been studying them for millennia, so how far have we come?

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, which will take effect 12 months after the president signs it. The IRS MATH Act amends Section 6213(b) of ...

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 ...

Could math predict humanity’s end? The Carter catastrophe suggests we might be living closer to the finale than we realize.

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

The new draft plan encourages schools to shift away from traditional methods for teaching math, such as memorization. It ...

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When Rajula Srivastava was first notified about a prestigious prize, she was quick to dismiss it. All she got was a cryptic email from the personal email address of mathematician Terence Tao asking if ...

Mathematics was not invented by one man, but rather a great tale of the human search for understanding and explanation of the world. It developed over time, influenced by countless cultures and great ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann. One of the biggest ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...