Hannah Cairo found herself stuck on a problem that wouldn’t leave her mind. It wasn’t a regular homework assignment—it was a decades-old mathematical puzzle believed to be true by leading experts in ...

Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives. Understanding ...

It was the Greek philosopher Heraclitus who wrote, “The only constant in life is change.” People weren’t comfortable with change when he wrote that, some 2,600 years ago, and we’re still not.

Alabama, which has historically leaned red, achieved a strong rating across five core policy areas.

For example, 11 is a prime number since 11 dots form only rectangular arrays of sizes 1 by 11 and 11 by 1. Conversely, 12 is not prime since you can use 12 dots to make an array of 3 by 4 dots, with ...

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. To make numbers, the Greeks added three more symbols ( accounts differ as to whether these were resurrected older letters or newly designed ...

These connections suggest that those who created such artifacts encoded profound mathematical and cosmic knowledge in their creations. This study suggests that besides being of religious importance, ...

Mathematics of Operations Research publishes articles concerned with mathematical and computational foundations of operations research, including optimization, mathematical and dynamic programming, ...

Results on an international test of adults' math and literacy skills show a growing chasm between the highest and lowest performers.

Euler’s number is a mathematical constant with many applications in science and finance, usually denoted by the lowercase letter e.

He's the author of four books about mathematics: Math with Bad Drawings, Change is the Only Constant, Math Games with Bad Drawings, and Math for English Majors which came out this year.