The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

There’s science, there’s literature, there’s everything else.” That’s changing now that the organization she founded in 2019, the Seattle Universal Math Museum, has opened its first public space. SUMM ...

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Werner Herzog kicked off Brooklyn Public Library's Pi Day celebrations with a keynote titled “Mathematics and the Sublime.” ...

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...

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 ...