Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

A student takes a math class to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in this archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo Are you an accountant who plugs functions into spreadsheets to ...

There is a shape called “the hat” that can completely cover a surface without ever creating a repeating pattern. For decades, mathematicians had wondered whether a single tile existed that could do ...

Stuck on a tricky math problem? Google's newest app will use AI to help you solve it. Two years ago, Google announced the purchase of a math problem-solving app called Photomath. And earlier this week ...

AI systems that can solve complex math could allow us to build more powerful AI tools. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your ...