International Mathematics Day 2026 is celebrated on March 14 worldwide. Know the history behind the observance, its ...

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… of the most famous mathematical constant. By itself, pi is simply a number, ...

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Maryam Mirzakhani grew up in Tehran dreaming of becoming a writer, not a mathematician. Yet she went on to win the Fields ...

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Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid acceleration of its ability to solve some of arithmetic’s most challenging ...

Mathematician Sarah Hart has always loved to read — and she argues literature and math are fundamentally intertwined. She ...

Imagine a problem so fiendishly hard that one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century publicly mused that even alien civilisations ...

Math is everywhere — and if you look closely, it's key to uncovering an enthralling perspective on literature, says mathematician Sarah Hart. "The universe is full of underlying structure, pattern, ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows ...