By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of ...

That’s because prime numbers of this type do not provide any immediate new mathematical insights. Nevertheless, Sloane is not giving up. Now age 85, he continues to spread his enthusiasm for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the ...

North Star students have taken part in the contest for the past eight years. Students are chosen to participate based on ...

For most, thoughts of early math lessons conjure images of number lines, multiplication tables and memorization. But a few teachers at West Elementary School are trying a new approach: talking it ...

In our new math league, players compete by flipping custom coins and comparing the results. Let’s say player A has a coin with the number 10 on one side and the number 6 on the other, and player B’s ...

Hood said that he wanted to avoid the clichés of the traditional math movie, “like the token superimposition of numbers on the screen,” and instead leaned into a thriller angle as Brooks ...