How many math lovers live in New York City? It’s a tough count to make, but the Museum of Mathematics made progress at its first anniversary celebration on Thursday, December 5. With a mission to ...

Take an outline map of the lower 48 U.S. states and four crayons. Can you shade in the map so that every state is a different color than each of its neighbors, without resorting to a fifth color? This ...

Scientists have for the first time used artificial intelligence to suggest and prove new mathematical theorems. The potential breakthrough came in a collaboration between mathematicians who specialise ...

Dr. Pierto Boselli, of University College London and Abercrombie & Fitch commercials, explains one of the most complicated and famous math problems of all time. Released on 01/03/2017 Hi everyone, I ...

The first proof that many people ever learn, early in high school, is the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It takes just a few lines and uses no ...

“You don’t have to believe in God, but you have to believe in The Book,” the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős once said. The Book, which only exists in theory, contains the most elegant proofs of ...

When one thinks of mathematics, the thought that comes to most peoples’ heads is solving an equation and getting a correct answer. That is the case with many mathematical theorems, including one of ...

Kumbakonam isn’t the little village it was when India’s most famous math genius Ramanujan walked its streets, lost in thoughts of complicated theorems. KUMBAKONAM: Kumbakonam isn’t the little village ...

His favourite photograph of himself is one in which he grins happily, holding an ancient scribbling slate in front of his chest. The slate is no ordinary one; it happens to be the one on which India's ...