There are times when the subject of a column picks itself so forcibly that it is impossible to let it go or even postpone it. Until some four hours ago, I was resolved to continue with writing the ...

In a landmark address at the UN Headquarters, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar inaugurated a historic mathematics exhibition, challenging the narrow lens of global scientific history. He boldly ...

Kurt Gödel, the man who ruined mathematics, was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. He was born in 1906, smack-bang in the middle of the greatest crisis that maths has ever known.

Pythagoras school also explored ideas in music, discovering that musical harmony could be explained through numbers. (Image Credit: AI) Pythagoras was an ancient Greek mathematician, philosopher and ...

Anyone who so much as glanced at a math book in high school will know the name, Pythagoras. Most will be familiar with the fact that he was a renowned mathematician from ancient Greece, and many will ...

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Once a century, a very special day comes along. That day is today — 9/16/25. Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students.

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Trigonometry class has tripped up generations of teenagers, yet none of its puzzles spark more head‑scratching than the classic right‑triangle riddle. The formula a² + b² = c² looks tidy on the ...

Editor's note: We've updated this story with the phrase "unidentified anomalous phenomena," NASA's most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University space physicist ...