My dad comes from a family of math lovers who enjoy sharpening their skills by trying to outdo one another at chess. For those unfamiliar with the game, planning how to move your pieces across a ...

Spread the loveLet’s face it, homework can be a grind. Whether you’re wrestling with a complex math problem, trying to ...

This year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics.

Turkish students excel in Japan’s Math final, securing victorious results and showcasing their mathematical prowess on the international stage.

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

Perpetuating the myths around maths can make it even more inaccessible for learners.

Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

Some, however, find that bridging fields opens new realms of possibility. Henry Kvinge, who trained as a mathematician but ...

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 ...

At SXSW London, our senior editor Will Douglas Heaven laid out how he’s thinking about AI in 2026. Watch his talk below. At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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