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

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Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Graduate from high school. Get a job. Don't have kids until you're married. Called the "success sequence," Ohio lawmakers want public schools to teach students that these basic rules will improve ...

Mathematics is more than a tool for making computations and solving problems. It’s a way of thinking that reveals patterns and symmetries, and makes connections between different abstract ideas. Many ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State senators advanced a bill that would require students in grades 6-12 to learn a three-pronged theory that states that people who complete at least a high school education, work ...

1 Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China 2 School of Education, Jinggangshan University, Ji'an, Jiangxi, China An experiment was conducted by temporal sequencing, ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...