Struggling with mental math? Students from class 6 to 10 now have a clever way to simplify tricky multiplication problems. The “doubling square” method turns large or complex calculations into quick, ...

This year is a big one for the math nerds out there — and for many, a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. That’s because 2025 is a “perfect square,” a number that’s the product of a squared integer — 45 ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

In 1886 the mathematician Leopold Kronecker famously said, “God Himself made the whole numbers — everything else is the work of men.” Indeed, mathematicians have introduced new sets of numbers besides ...