Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

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 ...

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 ...

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

MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'At the heart of the mathematical world lie numbers 'They give us the power to describe, 'measure and count everything in the universe. MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'But numbers aren't always ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the ...

Saturday is Pi Day, a national celebration of the mathematical concept, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its ...