For nearly 60 years, the “moving sofa problem,” a long-standing mathematical puzzle, remained unsolved. Last year, a Korean ...

China-born Carina Hong, a 24-year-old Stanford dropout, has drawn an elite group of AI researchers and a world-renowned ...

Contextualizing math is the path forward for math instruction across the country--making it relevant help students grasp ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do you need to allow the animal access to ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...