The Axiom of Choice became one of the most unsettling concepts in modern mathematics, and the man who championed it paid a ...

The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the most famous problems in that set. It’s about prime numbers. That’s any whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself – like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.

A lack of gender diversity in maths means technologies such as AI and quantum computing are mainly designed by – and for – ...

When Old Town High School Math Teacher Kristen Thompson uses TriO—a virtual reality environment developed by researchers at ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in ...

A new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments ...

A poor boy from southern India, with no formal training, writes a letter to Cambridge containing equations so complex that even today, mathematicians struggle to decode them. Srinivasa Ramanujan’s ...

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s ...