I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

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In a video on social media, a mathematician has outlined an ingenious method for saving a four-figure sum each year.

Laila Soueif, mathematician and mother, is on a hunger strike to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a political activist imprisoned in Egypt. Despite her health declining, Soueif pleas for ...

For decades, mathematicians have grappled with complex problems that seemed impossible to crack. But Pham Tiep, a mathematics ...

By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...

A brilliant young mathematician becomes an enemy of the deep state in a paranoid new potboiler streaming on Apple TV+.

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

An Australian mathematician has discovered what may be the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet. Known as Si.427, the tablet bears a field plan ...

Keir Finlow-Bates is not your typical blockchain expert. Known online as "Blockchain Gandalf," his LinkedIn tagline reads, "I ...

Pham Tiep, a mathematics professor at Rutgers-New Brunswick, has cracked a pair of mathematical puzzles that have baffled ...