Mathematics

"Excellent parallel parking," one online commenter joked.

The math problem drew an angry response on Reddit, with one user writing: "This is why math is difficult for so many people."

"There are exciting developments coming through, but much of it, I think, is overhyped," Junaid Mubeen said.

For decades mathematicians have sought some of the most quizzical answers regarding group theory. A TikTok video has brought it to a wider audience.

More Americans need to recognize the harm woke officials are doing to our education system and the urgent need to push back.

"Benoit was a rare person who looked more broadly and by this, saw more deeply," said his son, Dr. Didier Mandelbrot.

Pi Day is almost upon us and you'll need more than a pie tin to celebrate properly. Few holidays inspire this many math-based memes and jokes, so get 'em while they're hot... I mean, get 'em while they're the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter.

Any big ratio fans out there? Events and activities are happening around the world to celebrate Pi Day.

The work was famously described by Albert Einstein as "perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make."

Nine mathematicians inadvertently created Bourbaki while writing a textbook in post-war Paris.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation.

To multiply two numbers by hand takes a few steps but it's something we're taught in school. When dealing with big numbers, really big numbers, we need to a quicker way to do things.

Andrew Booker managed to express the number 33 as the the sum of three cubes.

Pi Day was first celebrated at the San Francisco Exploratorium on March 14 (3/14) 1988—with the date chosen as a reference to the first digits of pi.

The researchers say that more animals than previously believed might be capable of numerical cognition

Researchers have finally cracked it.

The finding could help scientists better understand how organs are formed in the body.

Only a handful of animals are known to understand the concept.

Between 1985 and 2015, hit songs were significantly more danceable than songs that didn't top the charts.

This question was the focus of a post that set Reddit alight.

"God does arithmetic," the German prodigy once said.

π is used to represent a special number—the ratio of a circle's circumference.

The number was found by a 51-year-old engineer running multiple computers for days on end.

The notoriously reclusive prodigy is waiting for someone to prove him right.

Still, a statistician says this will happen more than once a year.

Hafez al-Assad finished in the lower end of the International Mathematical Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro.

We rarely equate math with beauty and elegance—but we should.

A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge displays a restored image of Adam and Eve naked in a medieval primer.

By 1921, Einstein was recognized as one of the most talented minds of his generation.