If two people pick alternate slices from a pizza that has been cut unevenly from an off-centre point, common sense suggests ...

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — The MTA is on a fast track to the future with two more subway lines set to get the R262 open gangway trains soon. The No. 1 and No. 6 lines are expected to be the next to get ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Abstract: This paper studies the problem of Line Segment Detection (LSD) for the characterization of line geometry in images, with the aim of learning a domain-agnostic robust LSD model that works ...

An elementary school math question has left not only students but also a seasoned teacher—and much of the internet—scratching their heads. Bobby Seagull, @bobby_seagull, shared the puzzle his friend's ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Last month, the World Bank released yet another set of poverty estimates for India and bang, bang. The hammer dropped. Extreme poverty is nearly dead. Just some 3.3 crore Indians are extremely poor as ...

In my second-grade math classroom, I typically teach measurement and then teach a unit focusing on addition and subtraction on the number line. The goals of the unit include exploring the structure of ...