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

As we watch mesmerised, Operation Infinite Justice unfolds on TV monitors across the world. A coalition of the world's superpowers is closing in on Afghanistan, one of the poorest, most ravaged, ...

A partition of a positive integer n is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers whose sum is n, the partitions of 3 ...

For the 2022-2023 academic year, the senior seminar topics are The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Infinite Series or the Generalized Stokes Theorem. To ensure the senior seminar experience is an ...

On a crisp fall New England day during my junior year of college, I was walking past a subway entrance when a math problem caught my eye. A man was standing near a few brainteasers he had scribbled on ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Algebra can be ...

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise. In October 2018, David Asperó was on holiday in Italy, gazing out a car ...

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