A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical ...

The question seeks to find a maximum value for the area of a sofa that can slide around a 90-degree corner in a corridor of a given width. Mathematicians have long suspected that the answer lies with ...

Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Last week I wrote that we’d be publishing a few excerpts from a book I’m writing about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Here’s the ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Department of Education has released the latest SC READY results showing that pubic school students in grades 3 through 8 are continuing to show improvement in English ...

Students in South Carolina are showing strong academic progress, according to reports from ABC Columbia. State test results are showing that more third through eighth graders are reading and writing ...

Grandville’s elementary school leaders are excited about their new tool for teaching math, called Illustrative Mathematics.