Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that's covered with tiny squares? It's the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a "periodic tiling of space", with shapes covering an ...

A humble schoolteacher, Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, discovered the remarkable 6174 constant through simple number ...

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules? – Bianca, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney ...

Here’s a simple number game to play on a rainy day, or while sheltering in place. You and I take turns crossing out numbers from the list {1, 2, 3, …, 9}. The winner is the last person to cross out a ...

A $1 million prize has been awarded to a mathematician for work that could one day unlock the secrets of prime numbers. The King of Norway will officially present the prestigious Abel prize in ...