This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

It has become clear that the revenue math being used by Saez and the wealth-tax crowd is wrong, too. Stanford’s Joshua Rauh and several co-authors find that the California wealth tax’s projected ...

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 shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

If you own an S&P 500 fund, you probably think the choice doesn’t matter much. They all hold the same 500 stocks. They all track the same index. They all deliver roughly the same returns. You’d be ...

Explore the origins of Pi Day from San Francisco's Exploratorium to global recognition, blending math, culture, and pie in a ...

Some numbers are useful. Some are famous. And then there is pi, a number so absurdly powerful that humanity has spent ...

At the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)’s Pi Day celebration, circles, numbers and discovery take over the museum floor with family-friendly activity stations highlighting patterns, measurement and ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed ...

Mental math shortcuts suggest future STEM performance—and gender is a significant predictor What is 29 + 14?

Being a proud owner of a Sony PlayStation 5 means you have access to one powerful machine that can play demanding AAA titles from God of War Ragnarök to legacy semi-indies like Clair Obscur: ...

Government and political leadership were Americans’ top concern, with 29% naming issues related to government, Congress or politicians as the nation’s most important problem in February, according to ...