He avoided fame, lived in isolation, and ignored modern math — but still changed it forever. His life reads like fiction, but ...
Imaginary numbers began as a desperate solution to equations that seemed unsolvable. In the 1500s, Italian mathematicians ...
In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...
From the earliest days, mathematics has typically received a hallowed treatment from those who have studied it. Plato, who studied a special set of five three-dimensional shapes now known as the ...
In 1885, German inventor Gottlieb Daimler built what's recognized as the world's first true motorcycle: the "Reitwagen," a wooden-framed two-wheeler powered by a single-cylinder internal combustion ...
A mathematician in Cambridge, a cultural anthropologist in Providence, a cartographer in Rockland, Maine, and a basketmaker in Eddington, Maine, are among 22 national winners of “genius” grants ...
The White House press secretary fully embraced her boss’ habit of mathematically impossible bragging when she repeated President Donald Trump’s claim that his administration was forcing pharma ...
Michelle Gross, Spencer County math teacher, named 2026 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. Winner receives $10,000 and a six-month Department of Education sabbatical role. Panel chose winners from 753 ...
This column was originally published in the Houston Post on Oct. 7, 1963. In every museum in the country, there ought to be a bust of the guy that invented the bicycle. Few devices save more time and ...
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...
NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Fifth Third (FITB.O), opens new tab time's the charm. After two chunky bank mergers earlier this year fell short of the financial mark, the regional U.S.