Mathematics is a unique subject in that mathematics-related motivation and learning are often accompanied by strong emotions, ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox ...

On 20 August, the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued a notice under its ‘Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework’ (LOCF), aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Among the ...

Blaise Pascal was a teen mathematical genius who built a mechanical calculator before most kids finish schoolwork on their own. Several years later, a gambling question led him to found the ...

Complexity theory remains one of the great unsolved mathematical puzzles. Kenneth Regan is trying to figure it out. Kenneth Regan paused at lunch in New York to glance at incoming texts from top ...

A 17-year-old student has shaken the mathematics world by toppling a theory that stood unchallenged for over 40 years. Hannah Cairo's research, published in February on the online science archive ...

Homeschooled 17-year-old refutes 40-year-old math theory, heads straight to PhD At just 17, homeschooled Bahamas teen Hannah Cairo upended the 40-year-old Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, coming up with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Abstract: Outlier mining task is to discover some unusual objects, and however, most existing methods and their mining results lack pertinence. To address the pertinence of outlier results, we propose ...