A mathematics puzzle doing the rounds on social media is leaving many scratching their heads with its challenging question.

A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel AI system capable of grading and providing detailed feedback on ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

Yosra Barkaoui’s doctoral dissertation in mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, has successfully generalised a fundamental theorem that has been limited to the bounded case. The research ...

This viral brain teaser has left people scratching their heads as they debate whether the answer is 500, 200, or 102 ...

Struggling with a tricky math equation? In this video, I solve it step by step with a clear, beginner-friendly explanation. You’ll learn how to simplify correctly, avoid common mistakes, and ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

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