I have very fond memories of high school geometry. Memorizing theorems wasn’t too hard, and solving proofs was like solving the logic puzzles that I did for fun anyway. But the theorems were ...

By extending the scope of a key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

Young math whiz tests his theorem Proof positive: A teen-ager presents his findings on a possible mathematical law during a workshop for seasoned professionals.

Test your knowledge of taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more.

The seniors were familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry. You may remember it from high school: a² + b² = c². In plain English, ...

Math’s ‘Hairy Ball Theorem’ Has Surprising Implications. Here’s what the hairiest problem in math can teach us about wind, antennas and nuclear fusion. By Jack Murtagh edited by Jeanna Bryner.

Math is a harder problem, ... Dr. Trinh also gave the problems to a system developed in the 1970s that was known to be the strongest geometry theorem prover; it solved 10.