For Pi Day, a mathematician breaks down a figure that goes beyond the universal.
It may seem odd to spend enormous amounts of time to discover new prime numbers, but these figures play a key role in keeping information safe in the digital age.
New research shows that playing five sets per match instead of three would close most of the gap between male and female players.
Don’t be afraid to stick with your liberal arts education. If history is any guide, it could be just as valuable as knowing how to write code.
Researchers compared the Mona Lisa's background with the hills shown in its stereo pair. In doing so, they revealed a da Vinci secret.
Using too many trials to design investment algorithms renders them statistically useless and potentially devastating.
Do today's high school students prefer to take the AP Art History exam over AP Biology?
Parents with multiple ex-partners and children can plan their weekend custody schedules with a not-so-simple mathematical model.
Mathematicians propose using the “Lévy flight” model to reveal and police hotspots of crime.
Why do some children benefit more from tutoring than others? And does one small education study have the ability to drastically change our behavior as parents?
The Detroit Tigers will probably dominate, but the rest of the league might be a toss-up, says statistician Bruce Bukiet.
Do women often perform less well at higher math because of the stereotype that they have less ability than men, or is there another reason for the achievement gap?
Why do young girls lack confidence in math? One study shows American parents are far more likely to talk numbers with young sons than daughters.
Prolific political scientist Steven Brams has been promoting peace and fairness one algorithm at a time.
Steven J. Brams says approval voting, in which voters can vote for more than one candidate, is a better way to conduct multiple candidate elections.
Instead of party leaders selecting members of Congress to form a super committee to hash out problems, Steven J. Brahms suggests full houses of Congress make the picks using the minimax procedure.
When rivals negotiate, Steven J. Brams' suggests using the adjusted winner technique, which gives negotiators 100 points apiece and for them to start the bidding.
Instead of leaving it up to a coin flip, Steven J. Brams says the NFL should start overtime by giving the ball to the team that wins a bidding war for the kickoff.
As the fall semester begins, we look at some of the ways community colleges are meeting — or failing to meet — the needs of their students.
A new study shows that the math curriculum of U.S. eighth-graders is two years behind what their peers in other countries are studying. In the U.S., the poorest students tend to get the least demanding math classes.
While "figures lie and liars figure," that's no reason not to pay attention to some basic facts about common numerical comparisons.
Looking to goose American participation in science, math and technology, President Obama's "Sputnik moment" lacks the urgency and clarity of the original.