The two sat in separate sections in 1968 when the Hoosiers lost their first-ever bowl game. But Thursday, when Indiana faces ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Mathematicians present the Nopertedro: a Rupert property solid that broke an old myth by preventing one copy from passing through another.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — In celebration of Black History Month, a local group is taking time to recognize Black mathematicians that have become role models for members of the Orlando Math Circle (OMC).

After 27 years, the Berkeley Math Circle's flagship BMC-Upper program has shut down because the University of California, Berkeley implemented new background check rules requiring campus visitors to ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

An airplane, traveling with a constant engine speed, makes a large and perfect circle parallel to the ground. There is no wind. Will it complete the same circle in greater, less or the same time if ...