Every year on December 22, India observes National Mathematics Day to commemorate the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician whose life and work continue to hover between legend and rigorous ...

We explore the Hardy–Ramanujan number to explain two things about the legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, on ...

Mathematics is often seen as perfect—consistent, complete, and immune to contradiction. But in the early 20th century, a breakthrough proved that no mathematical system can ever explain everything ...

For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper ...

For several years now, on the DEPORTES VEGAS 1460 AM program, César Rodríguez, nicknamed "Pénjamo", has proposed a theorem.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Is an artificial intelligence revolution about to transform mathematics? Some prominent mathematicians think so, thanks to automated tools that can help write proofs suddenly showing impressive leaps ...

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...

Learn how to check divisibility by 13 with Sall's Theorem! This easy-to-follow method helps you determine if a number is divisible by 13 without doing long division. Perfect for math enthusiasts and ...

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school. When you ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...

The Central Limit Theorem is a statistical concept applied to large data distributions. It says that as you randomly sample data from a distribution, the means and standard deviations of the samples ...