For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

I saw this viral challenge and knew I had to try it! I'm taking a simple sheet of aluminum foil and grinding, hammering, and ...

When counting squares in a grid, don’t stop at the smallest boxes; the bigger ones are hiding too. The rule is simple: In an n × n grid—where n is the number of squares both horizontally and ...

Three of the beloved TV artists’ paintings sold for big bucks at a fundraising auction for public television on Tuesday.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

Riley Shepherd, from North Hollywood, California, won $100,000 on the new The Price Is Right game called The Lion’s Share, and she claims she “manifested her win.” ...