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

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

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

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

Viscous fingering occurs when a thinner fluid pushes a thicker, more viscous fluid in a porous medium, like underground rock, ...

Something From Nothing, Alison Roman’s fourth book, started with a phone message, a chicken, and a jar of olives. “A friend ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T. Selter. It’s a ...

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