A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example, x² + 5x + ...

University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger has unveiled a potentially game-changing mathematical ...

“The [Mathematical Association of America] and the [American Mathematical Society] have shared management, and equally contributed to the programming, of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) since ...

Polynomials above 4 degrees have a shiny new target on their back.

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

This episode traces the role of HBCUs and mentors in growing the community of Black mathematicians. The episode relates stories of prominent African American mathematicians who struggled through ...

The Pythagorean Theorem—discovered by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century BCE—is a cornerstone of mathematics. Simply stated as a 2 + b 2 = c 2, the theorem posits that the ...

Israeli-American mathematician Dennis Gaitsgory was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his role in the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in early April. Gaitsgory has ...

Calcea Johnson shares her and Ne'Kiya Jackson's present their claim to have proven the Pythagorean Theorem through trigonometry at the American Mathematical Society's Annual Southeastern Conference.

For centuries, mathematicians accepted this as simply an inherent challenge to their work, but not Norman Wildberger. According to his new approach detailed in The American Mathematical Monthly ...