Math

In one famous episode of The Simpsons, Homer finds a counterexample to Fermat’s last theorem

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

Does it ever feel like an elevator is always going in the wrong direction? Mathematics can explain why

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to decision-making can achieve

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment

For decades, mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets

Scientists have designed a new kind of paradoxical shape

Take apart the grid in this math puzzle

A Polish mathematician's theory on the famous problem of bisecting three solids using one plane

The intermediate value theorem shows us how to find an even center on an irregular shape

You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moon—or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss