Like a non-competitive Olympics of math, the International Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years, in a different city each time. By invitation only, top mathematicians from around the ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a ...

Is adding fractions more fun when the reward is a big bag of gold? The answer is yes when it comes to Math Mysteries: Fractions and Math Mysteries: Advanced Fractions, two education programs for ...

The use of the letter x as a mathematical unknown is a relatively modern convention. Algebra has been around for a lot longer. Daryl Benson/Stockbyte via Getty Images You might be most familiar with x ...

After almost sixty years of stumping progress in geometry, a Korean mathematician has cracked a problem that generations of scholars left unsolved. The so-called moving sofa problem asks how large a ...

Father-daughter team Eric and Natalie Yoder share brainteasers from their new book, One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Math. Get your slide rule ready and see if you can solve ...

It’s a great mix of math, mystery, and clever nods to Dragnet. Some elements (such as the evolution of databases and telephone technology) do make the story a bit of a cultural artifact that shows how ...

Earlier this month, I wrote about AI agents and made a point worth repeating… Agentic AI is here, and it’s moving fast. Well, it turns out I was right on the money. Just a few days after publishing ...