ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter's fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to ...

The beginner math mystery, available to anyone, concerns the origin of numbers. It’s a simple speculation: Where do numbers come from? No one knows. Were they invented by human beings?

Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power ...

A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award. Grigory ...

When you mix water with ouzo (a clear Greek spirit) something pretty crazy happens. The initially-transparent liquid turns a ...

The Math Mystery That Connects Sudoku, Flight Schedules and Protein Folding. Thousands of notoriously difficult problems in computer science are actually the same problem in disguise.

The letter x often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing – just look at Elon Musk with SpaceX, Tesla’s Model X, and now X as a new name for Twitter. You ...

They did the math. Sheriffs in Wisconsin sprang into action Friday night when a 10-year-old boy called 911 with an epic educational emergency: math homework.

Archaeology & History The Math—and Mystery—Behind an Ancient Counting Device. The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.

The Möbius Mystery Has Stumped Mathematicians for 46 Years. Finally, It's Solved. A Möbius strip is more than a fascinating image—it’s also a mathematical wonder.