It has become clear that the revenue math being used by Saez and the wealth-tax crowd is wrong, too.

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Warp drive has moved a little farther out of science fiction and a little deeper into physics. A new round of theoretical ...

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

👉 Learn about the rules of exponents. An exponent is a number which a number is raised to, to produce a power. It is the number of times which a number will multiply itself in a power. There are ...

The National Association of Scholars has pushed its model standards in social studies, science and English language arts. Now it’s set its sights on math.

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how much something costs, see patterns, and make decisions based on simple math.

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. According to a review analyzing 49 studies with 37,654 participants, reading comprehension has a significantly strong effect on students' ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...