The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. — Tecler Elementary School in the Greater Amsterdam School District recently had Math and Reading Night. The district said the school was buzzing with excitement as students and ...

A classic riddle about a hotel bill uses misleading math to create a paradox. This type of intentional misdirection is a common technique used in magic tricks. Here’s a riddle my father told me when I ...

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...