When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Number enthusiasts may be looking to the new year with a touch of melancholy. Another perfect square like 2025 (45 2 = 2,025) ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at least fifteen tightly documented geometric and astronomical puzzles embedded ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has unveiled a new open-weight AI model, DeepSeek-Math-V2. The advanced system is designed to generate and self-verify mathematical theorems ...

A brain teaser is like a fun little challenge for your mind. It’s a puzzle or riddle designed to make you think creatively and critically, often in ways you’re not accustomed to. At first glance, a ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A deceptively simple math problem has left the internet stumped, proving it may be far trickier than it appears at first glance. The mathematical brain teaser, posted Friday by X user @BholanathDutta, ...