Understanding the often-overlooked links between math and literature can enhance your appreciation of both.

The multistate Powerball lottery jackpot has swelled to $365 million, the largest lottery jackpot ever in America. In 2001, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg explained why you’re not a sucker for ...

Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex systems. These advances, led by Pham Tiep, a professor at Rutgers ...

That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical symmetry in the established methods for lower-order polynomials ...

The mathematical concepts involved, circles and radii, are basic ones that have stood the test of time. However, Johnson’s theorem comes up short in the beauty department in one salient respect.

Mathematical model reveals solution to sloshing coffee Date: December 22, 2017 Source: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Summary: When commuters rush out the door with coffee in hand ...

The Mathematical Madness of Möbius Strips and Other One-Sided Objects The discovery of the Möbius strip in the mid-19th century launched a brand new field of mathematics: topology ...

Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches The Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda demonstrates one of his physics “toys”: the curious higher and lower notes you hear when ...

A famous problem in mathematics that has remained unsolved for almost 160 years probably still is — despite a new claim by a retired mathematician that he has cracked it. Michael Atiyah, a ...

China is vying with Japan and Britain to host the 2030 maths Olympics for the second time, after it first held the event in 2002, an initiative led by eminent mathematician Shing-Tung Yau.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any art or science, is a young man's game," the British mathematician G.H. Hardy wrote in A Mathematician's Apology ...