Two New Orleans high school students recently attended a conference where they proved an “impossible” math problem by using trigonometry. For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians worldwide have ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1993, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th ...

Writer Randall Munroe doesn't love math, but has made a career out of solving equations. By answering outlandish hypotheticals, he uses numbers as... How Can Math Help You Imagine The Impossible? Part ...

Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben ...

Dr. Lance Bryant How can a cylinder look perfectly circular and yet appear square in the mirror? In this talk, we explore ...