The Riemann hypothesis may hold the answer to the distribution of the primes, the only problem is, no-one has yet been able ...

The seemingly random distribution of prime numbers has confounded some of the best mathematical minds for centuries. But the ...

The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

Plans to address mathematically challenged Minnesota students could be offered early in 2009. A six-member, bipartisan task force is expected to meet later this month to look at ways to improve the ...

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...