The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Many complicated advances in research mathematics are spurred by a desire to understand some of the simplest questions about numbers. How are prime numbers distributed in the integers? Are there ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you progressively halve the number and take the integer floor of any “and a half” ...

Artificial intelligence has once again pushed the boundaries of what is possible. On November 14, 2025, an AI system, aptly named the AI Math Genius, achieved a significant milestone by delivering 100 ...