Understanding the famously complex Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory could solve mathematics' greatest problems.

Studying late into the night between hectic workdays, a doctoral dropout has managed to decipher one of mathematics’ most ...

The Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory, an infamous proof that has confounded mathematicians for over a decade, has been ...

In his online wanderings, Rubine stumbled across the channel of Australian mathematician N.J. Wildberger. Intrigued, he got ...

Math can already feel like a foreign language to most of us. But for Zhou Zhongpeng, a 28-year-old engineer and PhD dropout, ...

“In the days of Galileo and Newton, it wasn't unreasonable to regard mathematics as the language of the Great Book of Nature,” Maddy explained in an email interview with Salon. “But over the ...

In “The Language of Mathematics,” Raúl Rojas gives us a survey, from the Greek cross (for the arithmetic operation of addition) to the earliest use of the concept of zero.

But at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week, math educators said the subject has its own language, too—and knowing how to speak it is critical to success. In presentations ...

But in her sophomore year, her calculus professor changed her mind. Mathematics, she learned, was the language that all the sciences are written in. “There’s something deeper out there than what’s in ...

A.I. is just as much a challenge to numeracy — our knowledge and ability to use mathematics and reason quantitatively — as it is to literacy. In February, the A.I. engineer Andrej Karpathy reported on ...