French mathematician Frank Merle, who won a prestigious Breakthrough Prize on Saturday, told AFP that fundamental research ...

A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve. The equations are fundamental to maths as well as science, where they have broad applications ...

What if Pi Day, perhaps the best known mathematical holiday, was actually better celebrated in the summer? Currently falling on March 14 — 3/14, in honor of the first three digits of the infamous ...

An old BBC interview featuring Shakuntala Devi, widely known as the “human computer”, is circulating online again, drawing ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...