Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning.  The ...

Model math standards produced by conservative education advocates helped spark a battle in South Dakota that could spread to other states.

The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For ...

For most of us, the Pythagorean theorem is one of the first big ideas we learn in mathematics. A simple rule connecting the ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th century collection of the Greek mathematician’s treatises, changed hands many time—some ...

Breakthrough ideas often appear when you least expect them—but studies show there’s more than one way to trigger a “eureka” ...

Atlantis is a thrilling fantasy series that explores Greek mythology, featuring a hilarious central trio and Game of Thrones ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the ...