Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student ...

For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

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

During strongly trending bull markets, investors often overlook the importance of math in predicting forward returns.

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

To compare numbers, you need to look to see if a number is 'greater than' or 'less than' another number. You can use symbols to help you compare numbers: Small numbers are easy to count, but when ...

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

In number theory, an “evil number” is “a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expression.” ...