The launch of Roots of Unity was just in time for this year's Joint Mathematics Meetings, a mathapalooza put on by the two largest professional mathematical societies (the American Mathematical ...

As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with to this day. But he doesn’t feel bad: The problem that captivated him, ...

For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians have searched for a single example of an odd perfect number—and found none. Computers have tested candidates beyond 10^2,200, while 51 even perfect numbers ...