A geometry problem that puzzled mathematicians for nearly six decades has finally been cracked — and the breakthrough comes ...

NOVA THE GREAT MATH MYSTERY premieres on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 9PM/8c on PBS (check local listings). In the same way that NOVA took viewers on a wild ride through basic chemistry, the periodic ...

Danny Carmo’s Mathematical Mysteries, a show where math, theatre and digital technology collide to create a fun and interactive performance that proves how understanding math can be fun. Not long ago, ...

Ending a six-decade-old mathematical mystery with the help of computational methods, a trio of Chinese scientists have proven that manifolds of Kervaire invariant one do exist in dimension 126. The ...

PRINCETON-- More than a year after his death, Princeton University mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is bidding farewell to the academic world with a new book about the biggest mysteries of ...

The use of the letter x as a mathematical unknown is a relatively modern convention. Algebra has been around for a lot longer. Daryl Benson/Stockbyte via Getty Images You might be most familiar with x ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the same way that NOVA took viewers on a ...

Like a non-competitive Olympics of math, the International Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years, in a different city each time. By invitation only, top mathematicians from around the ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a ...

A monthly column in which top researchers explore the process of discovery. This month’s columnist, Ingrid Daubechies, is the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer ...

Scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient ...