For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...

Researchers at DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research division of Alphabet Inc., have created software that’s able to solve difficult geometry proofs that are often used to test the brightest ...

Colleen Ritzer had the challenging job of getting sleepy, slouching high school students to work geometry proofs — the tedious building of evidence to show that two angles are congruent, or two lines ...

Ryan Morgan has gotten used to sharing trade secrets with older and wiser mathematicians. So, the Patapsco High School junior was unfazed yesterday when he explained his findings — widely considered a ...

Though pictures are often used to present mathematical arguments, they are not typically thought to be an acceptable means for presenting mathematical arguments rigorously. With respect to the proofs ...

Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.