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 ...

Neuroscientists are exploring whether shapes like squares and rectangles — and our ability to recognize them — are part of what makes our species special. Credit...Video by Yoshi Sodeoka Supported by ...

Differential manifolds provide higher dimensional generalizations of surfaces. They appear in a very natural manner in many areas of mathematics and physics. On a differential manifold or more ...

A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed a mathematical framework for human color perception that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger first sketched more than a century ago.

RIT’s computational mathematics major emphasizes problem-solving using mathematical models to identify solutions in business, science, engineering, and more. Learn by Doing: Gain experience through an ...

The effort follows earlier battles over social studies and could spread to other states reviewing academic standards.

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad ...

The latest results of an international exam given to teenagers ranked the USA ninth in reading and 31st in math literacy out of 79 countries and economies. America has a smaller-than-average share of ...