In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The ...
These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...
Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.
A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of algebra and spot-the-difference skills with a pictograph math problem that assigns numbers to different fruits. Gergely Dudás, of Hungary Budapest, ...
Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern ...
It is rare for opinion on any of my columns to be evenly divided. But the flood of comments I received on my piece about getting rid of Algebra II had good arguments on both sides, and indications of ...