He avoided fame, lived in isolation, and ignored modern math — but still changed it forever. His life reads like fiction, but ...

An associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has publicly called former President Donald Trump a racist and ...

In this one-off event, the London Contemporary Music Festival will return to the Wigmore Hall with another provocative ...

"The kid starts cackling, and I realise he invented his own question in order to trick me into saying it," the teacher wrote.

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 ...

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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 ...