In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Mathematics is often about uncovering patterns. For example, certain areas of topology revolve around categorizing knots or geometric shapes, and number theory explores properties such as the ...

A partition of a positive integer n is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers whose sum is n, the partitions of 3 ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

Important update, Jan. 17 at 18:00 UTC: There have been a lot of objections raised about the video mentioned below and the way I describe the math therein. It’s more than I can simply add or update ...

If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That’s the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of ...