Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

US students rank poorly in global math scores—outdated instruction is to blame. To prepare students for increasing complex ...

One aspect of culture is a commonly held set of beliefs and norms that guides the practices of a group. At a broad/national level, the culture of mathematics teaching can be characterized as both an ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a ...

It’s known as the “alien language” of math, so weird and complex that even the best minds around struggle to fathom it. But now, it has a new translator – and its fans are excited. What is ...