This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

In this video I will show you how to graph a linear equation in slope-intercept form. I will do this by showing you how to identify the y-intercept and the slope. We will then plot the y-intercept on ...

Description: 👉 Learn how to graph linear equations written in slope intercept form. When given a linear equation in slope intercept form, (i.e. in the form y = mx + c, where m is the slope and c is ...

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

OpenAI is rolling out interactive learning in ChatGPT for math and science concepts. With these dynamic visual explanations, ChatGPT will essentially guide learners by showing how formulas, variables, ...

Why doesn’t an elephant use 1,000 times more energy than a mouse? Kleiber’s Law states that metabolism scales to body size at the three-quarter power.

Jennifer Williams’ commentary about parents’ right to choose what books their children read and/or have access to in school libraries is one more example of the current movement to silence particular ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...