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A heartfelt note from a high school math teacher has gone viral after his former student shared how his words helped her during one of the darkest periods of her teenage years. In a TikTok video with ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...

Steven Strogatz, Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University We asked Strogatz — a 2023 top award winner of the National Academies’ ...

A new study using 3D scans of sharks has confirmed that their body shape follows a long-theorized biological rule, the ‘two-thirds scaling law,’ with remarkable precision. Credit: Stock A new study ...

Math is everywhere in daily life. Parents and teachers can use simple activities to teach math without a textbook.For example, buying vegetables can teach kids about measurements and fractions. This ...