Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

Marjorie Rice, a homemaker from San Diego, solved a decades-old geometry problem in 1975. Her discovery of new pentagon ...

A Sydney inventor’s solution for dirty ship hulls has attracted $16m funding. Now there are plans to build Australia’s ...

As OpenAI's president, Brockman is steamrolling toward "completing the mission" of moving beyond AI to artificial general ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

The infinite hotel paradox imagines a hotel with endless rooms that somehow runs out of space. Even when new guests arrive, ...

This week Philadelphia’s Art Alliance put models and plans for 15 U.S. war memorials on display. The work of well-established firms selected by the U.S. Battle Monuments Commission,* they would be ...

This 180-sided object cannot fit through another like it, no matter where you bore the hole or how you tilt it.