There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

imagine you leave Earth in a spaceship traveling in a straight line and you continue on this journey forever will you ever reach the edge of the universe is that even possible this is perhaps the ...

One kind of brainteaser that tests a reader's ability to think critically and solve problems is a math challenge. It's ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...