For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

A linear sequence goes from one term to the next by always adding (or subtracting) the same value. The number added (or subtracted) at each stage of the linear sequence is called the common difference ...

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

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

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