Math

New solutions found to picture-hanging problems

Some voting districts are tilted intentionally toward one party or another—a factor in the midterms. Geometry plays a critical role in gerrymandering

A researcher’s social media post that revealed how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But did he really do it with just “good old paper and pencil”?

How many times do you have to fold a piece of paper to make a doughnut? After decades, a mathematician has determined the most efficient technique

A technique that manipulates the video game's random number generator makes rare Pokemón appear, showing how it's not so random after all

An investigation into the incomprehensibly, unfathomably large amount of money the U.S. owes

Cryptographers use points along a curve to build tough codes

Explore the Tetris paradox in this math puzzle

Music and math often come together in ways we don’t expect

A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old question about whether every polygon contains a path home

There’s a $1-million prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem

Mathematician Yang-Hui He explains why artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming mathematical work—and why that’s a good thing