Even if we mapped every genome, mathematics would still confront us with unending questions Dr Reyaz Ahmad “Mathematics is the only infinite human activity,” the legendary problem-poser Paul Erdős ...

A country’s entire economy and growth revolves around different aspects of mathematics. The role of mathematics in national, regional and international developments has become more evident in ...

DESPITE a five per cent improvement in this year’s CSEC mathematics results Jamaica’s pass rate remains well below pre-pandemic levels, with Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon admitting that ...

Three computer scientists have solved a problem central to a dozen far-flung mathematical fields. In 2008, Daniel Spielman told his Yale University colleague Gil Kalai about a computer science problem ...

I feel for my students when I hand them their first essay assignment. Many are mathematicians, students and teachers who chose to study mathematics partly to avoid writing. But in my mathematics ...

At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been searching for a solution in vain for decades. According to mathematician Jeffrey Lagarias, number theorist Shizuo ...

A TikTok user named Bianca posted a video of herself weeping over a simple problem which turns out to be an uncomplicated division equation. Other users found this stressful since even an elementary ...

In 2008, Daniel Spielman told his Yale University colleague Gil Kalai about a computer science problem he was working on, concerning how to “sparsify” a network so that it has fewer connections ...