How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – but 100 years on, this trick is a common part of modern maths, says columnist ...

Jacob Tsimerman is a frontrunner for the prestigious Fields Medal. He‘s also handy with the occasional dragon’s egg ...

Math will look and feel a lot different in San Francisco schools this year and that seems evident by the picture of the chilled-out chimpanzee on the cover of the new kindergarten textbook, with ...

To this day, one of the best tablets available is the iPad. Apple offers a wide range of tablets, and while they can be pretty cheap or very expensive, they all provide a consistent experience not ...

The “hat” tile is a mathematical wonder. Discovered by amateur mathematician David Smith in 2022, it can be used to cover every square inch of an endless bathroom floor (or any other surface) ...

Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

When students look for keywords, they may fail to read the whole problem. Teachers can use these three strategies to help ...

Claude Fabel 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture over the weekend, landing days after the capabilities of China's Kimi AI became the biggest force moving bitcoin markets.

An equation is like a set of scales that are in balance.

New AI Method Tackles One of Science’s Hardest Math Problems May 6, 2026 Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists ...

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