The Latest Breaking News from Mathematics

AI workloads are breaking cloud economics. Here’s why smarter teams are rethinking their infrastructure strategy.

Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

What’s seven times nine? Quick, you’ve got six seconds to answer.

The Trump administration is reshaping the pursuit of science through federal cuts to research grants and the Department of Education. This will have real consequences for students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM learning.

As President Donald Trump moves to revoke Harvard University's certification to enroll foreign students, he is falsely claiming that the university is offering “low grade mathematics like two plus two is four.”

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented prime numbers. Similarly, a clay tablet from 1800 B.C.E. inscribed with Babylonian numbers describes a number system built on prime…

Other lives: Educationist and teacher trainer whose enthusiasm for popularising mathematics led to the opening of the first maths discovery centre in the UK

Humans are finite creatures. Our brains have a finite number of neurons and we interact with a finite number of people during our finite lifetime. Yet humans have the remarkable ability to conceive of the infinite.

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus?