Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Pythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers and intellectuals of Greek history considered the number three to be a sacred number.

Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died in July 2025. While he swam in Lake Murray, a reservoir a few miles from Columbia, South Carolina, Naegleria fowleri – a rare amoeba found in warm fresh water – ...

Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — ...

A single server smashed the pi world record, churning out 314 trillion digits in 110 days.

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

The NASDAQ broke a five-week losing streak and led the advance with a gain of 1.5% in the holiday-shortened trading week ending February 20th. It has rebounded some this week as the beaten-down ...

Is your local Major League Baseball team better than its record suggests? Math researchers are considering alternatives to the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball, devised by baseball statistician Bill ...

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