Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Some mathematical statements feel undeniably true the moment you hear them. Yet proving them can be impossible. This theorem ...

Lashi Bandara is affiliated with Australian National University. These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage to provide an answer but it ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...