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

University of Michigan Prof. Sarah Koch talked about the math behind the classic card game Spot it! in a Wednesday speaker ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written numbers.

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

It was rising junior walk-on Ben Johnson. “Football and those things came easy to him,” said Joe Dailey, Johnson’s roommate and fellow quarterback at North Carolina. “You could tell right then and ...

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In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...