Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

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

“Maths is important – everybody should be able to do simple maths,” says Succession Wealth chief operating officer Dawn Buckingham. “But I don’t think you need to have advanced maths – you don’t need ...

Emerging research has placed renewed focus on using strange aspects of mathematics to probe the nature of black holes.

On Pi Day, teachers use pies, games and creative classroom activities to help students connect with math in a fun way.

Aaron Jawson regularly spends time reteaching the basics to his sixth grade math students. They often have a bit of a complex ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Natural gas continues to slowly rise as we are taking on the $3.50 barrier, an area that has been important in the past. The natural gas markets have risen slightly during the early hours on Thursday ...

Earlier today I set you these three problems about the number 11. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Funny formation You are the coach of a football team, whose players have shirt numbers 1 to 11.

It’s two decimal digits long, it’s prime, it’s a palindrome and it’s the number of players in a football team. Let’s hear it for “legs” eleven! Today’s puzzles reveal interesting properties about the ...