A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

When, as a young trainee in a London dealing room, I was first introduced to Fibonacci numbers I was, as are most people, skeptical. The analysis consists of calculating significant levels based on a ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...

Description: The binomial transform is a transformation that takes a sequence as an input and gives another sequence as an output according to a certain rule. As an example, we have that the binomial ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...

Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...