The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three ...

Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the individual particles within it? This question, first asked in 1900, now has a solution that could help us understand the ...

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

“Mathemalchemy” has been described as “a mathematics fever dream turned artistic playground for all math lovers (and haters, too).” ...

Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex ...

Pi belongs to a huge mathematical group called irrational numbers, which go on forever and cannot be written as fractions.

Every year, mathematicians, educators, and enthusiasts mark March 14 as Pi Day, celebrating one of the most fundamental ...

A top academic has returned to China as a professor at the new Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, ...

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to ...

Math fanatics from all around the world and everyone else who just loves ancient Greek pi (or pie) celebrate on March 14.

Wang Yusheng, a mathematician in his 80s, remembers that, after he enrolled in the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of ...