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A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

Mathematics is often seen as perfect—consistent, complete, and immune to contradiction. But in the early 20th century, a breakthrough proved that no mathematical system can ever explain everything ...

Once the trade that sent Michael Porter Jr. to the Brooklyn Nets after six seasons with the Denver Nuggets was completed, with Cameron Johnson going the other way, many believed the team from Colorado ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

About 10 years ago I invented a simple little mathematical system to help me pick winners in bowl games. If I'm looking at a list and I see something like this year's XBox Bowl (yes, that's a thing) ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s exit from politics after nearly 40 years in the game is a stark reminder that too much of our political class is like her: long-haul careerists who cling to the reins of power — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abstract dreamscape 3D landscape background in purple colors A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally ...