For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this even fit?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem a ...

Pham Tiep, a mathematics professor at Rutgers-New Brunswick, has cracked a pair of mathematical puzzles that have baffled ...

For decades, mathematicians have grappled with complex problems that seemed impossible to crack. But Pham Tiep, a mathematics ...

New research findings reveal that parents' anxiety about mathematics can have a negative impact on their children's early numeracy skills, influencing their performance in the subject as they ...

Better codes have led to better sphere packings, and vice versa. In 1967, for instance, the mathematician John Leech used an incredibly efficient code — famous for its later use by NASA to communicate ...

A new study in Nature Communications explores the dynamics of higher-order novelties, identifying fascinating patterns in how ...

His main areas of research were function theory and analytic number theory. Landau became world famous for his two-volume ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

Members of Wu-Tang Clan and longtime DJ-producer Mathematics talk about teaming up for an LP titled (in part) 'Black Samson,' due for Record Store Day.

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.

But Khayyam’s mathematical achievements were much more substantial: a renowned scientist and astronomer, he was an outstanding mathematician, his most famous work being a treatise on algebra ...