Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

It took over a decade of checking and rechecking before his fellow mathematicians were happy that Dr Hales’s calculations ...

How could this be? This counterintuitive finding is a consequence of what’s called Simpson’s paradox, a phenomenon that is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We understand, but how will it be asked in the test?” This is the question that was posed to me time and again in 2019 when I ...

It's getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

-- Exercise: replace the words "sorry" with the correct Lean justification. example {r s : ℚ} (h1 : s + 3 ≥ r) (h2 : s + r ≤ 3) : r ≤ 3 := -- Example 1.4.3 -- Exercise: type out the whole proof ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.