Arabic Numerals were introduced to Europe by Leonardo Bonacci. Bonacci, better known as Fibonacci, hailed from the 13th Century Republic of Pisa. If not for Fibonacci, we would all be using ...

SEOUL - A South Korean mathematician has won international recognition for solving a geometry puzzle that had resisted proof for nearly six decades. US magazine Scientific American named the research ...

A Korean mathematician has won international recognition for solving a geometry puzzle that had resisted proof for nearly six decades. US magazine Scientific American named the research by Baek ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur even after successful treatment, or why do some bacteria survive despite the use of powerful antibiotics? One of the key culprits identified is "biological ...

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Has Thomas Frank found the missing piece to his puzzle in one of our youngest stars? As much as I remain a big fan of Joao Palhinha, and while his partnership with Rodrigo Bentancur initially added a ...

You are participating in a holiday gift exchange with a few classmates. You each write down your own name on a slip of paper and fold it up. Then all the students place their names into a single hat.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day of class: Sum up the digits from 1 to 100, without counting. But first, he ...

The hour, minute and second hands of this clock are all the same length and move smoothly in a circle. The dial contains hour and minute markers, but the numbers are missing. Therefore, it’s ...