As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated ...

Born Brunswick, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany. Gauss worked in a wide variety of fields in both mathematics and physics incuding number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, ...

Tim Mulkerin is a freelance writer, editor, and social media manager who has been working in digital media and the tech world since 2016. He has a bachelor's degree in art history and is currently ...

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Sunday, April 26, 2026, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I’ll ...

A playful world of puzzles, patterns, and curiosity, Ramanujan Math Park is showing India that maths isn’t just a subject but a living, breathing experience where children discover, question, and fall ...

For the flat Earth theorists out there, what if there was a happy compromise between a flat and round planet? How about a polyhedron? From triangles to cubes, polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes.

Mathematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They test, and then push past, the limits of their imagination. They engage with ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display. By Siobhan Roberts It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the Dutch sculptor Rinus Roelofs organizes his life ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...

Polyhedra, a crypto protocol, announced a buyback plan to restore trust after its token, ZKJ, plummeted over 80% in minutes. The crash was attributed to a coordinated liquidity attack and significant ...