German mathematician Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, for proving the long-standing Mordell conjecture and laying foundations for major areas of ...
It has become clear that the revenue math being used by Saez and the wealth-tax crowd is wrong, too.
The glaring problem is more oil from Venezuela—or any other source around the world—represents only metaphorical drops in the global supply bucket compared to the massive losses each day from the ...
Nearly 50 middle school students from across Dare County Schools came together March 11 for the district’s first-ever Numbers Game Math Competition, held at First Flight Middle School. The event […] ...
Leanna Pitsoulakis took a lap around her freshmen honors math class at Carl Sandburg High School, scanning the work spread across each student’s desk before returning to the front of the room with ...
The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.
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Who works on unsolved math problems?

A look at how mathematicians around the world study and attempt to solve long-standing problems that continue to challenge the field of mathematics.
Student mathematicians spent Saturday crunching numbers and solving equations at Maria Carrillo High School’s library as part of an academic tournament celebrating Pi Day, March 14.
All over the country, people are pulling their financial information together, assembling receipts and taking everything to a ...
The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...
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This math problem took 357 years to solve

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...