Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

The journal Science's "breakthrough of the year" for 2006 is the solution of a century-old math problem. The story behind the solution is quite a soap opera. It includes a Harvard math wizard, a ...

For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...

A colorful poster on the wall of Bev Frick’s math class at the Science and Arts Academy in Des Plaines encourages children to solve problems by working backward, drawing pictures or moving objects.

MUMBAI, India --What is the square of 85? In an instant, a 17-year-old boy said without blinking, "7,225." Kamlesh Shetty had used a trick from a quaint concept called Vedic math, a compilation of ...

Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren’t even told that such paintings ...

A woman has gained a number of likes and views over her unique take on why her 40-year-old friend is extremely young, but she, at 27, is very old, with one user calling it "girl math at its finest." ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — JJ Scott is a regular 5-year-old with an extraordinary passion for numbers. While most children his age are focused on cartoons or playing outside, JJ is spending his free time ...

Nathan Katcher memorized the design of the flags of 65 different countries. He taught himself how to play the piano using an app. He has five different versions of Monopoly and knows exactly how much ...

Isaiah Gyamfi, a 2-year old boy from Ghana, is getting international attention as a child prodigy that knows how to count in at least 4 different languages and how to solve complex math problems.

At just 24, Carina Hong has become one of the most talked-about young figures in AI, a China-born mathematician who dropped ...