While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

Markets reward patience, but most investors are wired for novelty. The hardest part of building wealth is not spotting the next big thing, it is repeatedly choosing dull, methodical decisions over the ...

A math puzzle that looks deceptively simple is leaving many people online scratching their heads. Shared on X this week by user @BholanathDutta, the brainteaser sparked heated debate over the correct ...

MUMBAI: The new Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL), which came into effect on November 1, have not been put on hold in its entirety; only specific, temporary relaxations have been granted, and only ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it’s a serious (and endlessly fascinating) ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running ...

Regarding the Bloomberg guest editorial, “For too many kids, math isn’t adding up” (Nov. 20 print edition): Memorizing math rules does not always lead to understanding math problems. It may lead to ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — West Springfield’s chief of operations is ensnarled in a dispute with a neighbor that resulted this week in a judge issuing a restraining order against her. The order, granted ...