Similar to the way astrology and personality types can reveal a lot about you, so can numbers. Welcome to the field of ...

Today marks the birth anniversary of Augustus De Morgan, one of the most influential figures in the history of mathematics ...

NCTM Releases New Position Statement on Changing the Professional Culture of Teaching Mathematics ...

One aspect of culture is a commonly held set of beliefs and norms that guides the practices of a group. At a broad/national level, the culture of mathematics teaching can be characterized as both an ...

Greek geometry wasn’t just math—it was an attempt to decode the universe. Its logic still powers rockets, bridges, and every ...

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891, but what about the teenager ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic manipulations of numbers. Taking a deep-dive into the evolutionary roots of our ...

Mathematics, she learned, was the language that all the sciences are written in. “There’s something deeper out there than what’s in the textbooks,” she said. “It’s a really delightful world that we ...

In 2019, building on the tradition of Pi Day celebrations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed March 14 the International Day of Mathematics (IDM).

Mathematics didn’t arise complete and finished through the work of just one mathematician; it has a cultural history that spans many years. For centuries we’ve been looking at the sky or ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Curious History of Venn Diagrams” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 333 No. 1 (July/August 2025), p. 98 ...

India celebrates National Mathematics Day on December 22, marking the birth anniversary of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Initiated in 2012 by then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the ...