A video of a lecturer’s unconventional online math class has gone viral, drawing widespread attention to how it is impossible to learn a thing from the course. It all began when a University of Lagos ...

2. 3. 5. 7. 11. 13. 17. And so on. This is far from a comprehensive list of prime numbers—if we were to compile and write out an exhaustive list of all known prime numbers, this would be a truly ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out ...

The prime number Durant discovered serves no real purpose for society. This isn’t the key to curing a disease or proving some universal scientific theory. “It’s entertainment for math nerds ...

Representatives from the art and mathematics departments at Carpinteria Middle School (CMS) spoke about their subjects and teaching methods during the Carpinteria Unified School District (CUSD) Board ...

Covering most major areas of mathematics — from calculus to chaos, geometry to numbers theory — each chapter takes an area of math and unpacks the story of its discovery, with particular focus ...

The trick was to use what are called “complex numbers”, which have a “real” part and an “imaginary” part. The imaginary part is a multiple of the number i, “the square root of minus ...

If you didn’t get enough of him in Terrifier 3, you can use this phone number to phone Art the Clown in real life – but don’t expect much of a conversation. Art the Clown has become a ...

Fundamental problems about multiplication — about, say, how numbers factor into primes — suddenly become much deeper and more challenging as soon as addition enters the picture. One of math’s biggest ...