When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

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

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Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...