One of the most important pieces of mathematical knowledge was on the verge of being lost, maybe forever. Now, a new book hopes to save it. The Disc Embedding Theorem rewrites a proof completed in ...

In her new book, “MATH-ish,” Boaler is doubling down on her approach to math with a title that seems to encourage inexactitude. She argues that approaching a problem in a “math-ish” way gives students ...

The author sketches the development of ever-more-rarefied mathematics, from calculus to the mind-bending work on different kinds of infinity by the Russian-German sage Georg Cantor, who proved ...

Math's Hidden Woman Following is the true story of Sophie Germain, an 18th-century woman who assumed a man's identity in order to pursue her passion—attempting to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

Math teachers at St. Mary's later submitted Johnson and Jackson's proofs to an American Mathematical Society conference in Atlanta in March 2023. "Well, our teacher approached us and was like, ...

Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry. ... will be given in 2026. The math, as the kids say, could be “mathing” for these two ...

But math proofs are like being asked, "Explain why 2+2=4 using logical steps" or "Prove that this formula works for all possible numbers." ...

A proof is essentially a social construct – if enough mathematicians are satisfied that the logical steps of a proof are… Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter ...

Math ruined my GPA. But a new book rekindled my fascination with numbers. In ‘Once Upon a Prime,’ Sarah Hart takes readers on a fascinating tour of the world of numbers, finding connections ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.