Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...