A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the ...

The Cabot Professor of Mathematics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss life lessons from mathematics, the challenges of ...

The odds of winning a big Powerball, Mega Millions or Florida Lotto jackpot are almost incomprehensibly huge. Any way to increase your chances?

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Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

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The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

Here in Texas, there are around 11,000 students who are blind or visually impaired – which means that in addition to math, science and reading, many of them spend time in school learning how to get ...

For Mr. Santos, math can also inspire ideas about structures that have already been built — a new way to see and appreciate the world. Inspired by this idea, The New York Times created a virtual tour ...