Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Nous Research's open-source Nomos 1 AI model scored 87/120 on the notoriously difficult Putnam math competition, ranking ...

What is the most important number in the entirety of mathematics? Ok, that’s a pretty silly question – out of infinite possibilities, how could you possibly choose? I suppose a big hitter like 2 or 10 ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

A former Escondido High School math teacher who pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving two underage students was sentenced Tuesday to six years in state prison. Ky Iri Tisdale, 32, was arrested last ...

Optical illusions offer insights into brain function, enhancing critical thinking and creativity. This visual puzzle challenges viewers to find the number 97 hidden among numerous 67s within four ...

Mathematics is no longer taught at more than 450 South African public schools, raising alarm among education experts, unions and civil society. A total of 464 South African schools no longer offer ...

Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer in 2013 when he was a 14-year-old student, will not get a new murder trial or be resentenced, the Massachusetts ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Florida carried out only one execution this year – down sharply from six in 2023 – although the state led the nation with the most new death sentences ordered by juries, according to a year-end ...

Thousands of computers across the world are currently scouring the number line in a scavenger hunt for rare mathematical gems. Enthusiasts looking for larger and larger prime numbers, which are ...