"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A mathematician may have just proved the impossible possible. For 30 years, mathematicians wondered if ...

Two New Orleans-based teenagers have cracked the code of an impossible math problem that hasn’t been discovered for nearly 2,000 years, according to a presentation they gave at a recent mathematics ...

I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1993, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th ...

A leading educator has weighed in on the debate surrounding a seemingly impossible math problem allegedly set as homework for a 5th grader in the U.S. The math question first came to light after a ...

Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated as out of reach. Systems tuned for symbolic reasoning are now cracking long ...