For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a single line in Euclid’s work had to be wrong — until attempts to fix it led to something far stranger. By slightly changing that one statement, they ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Kodak wasn’t trying to monitor nuclear activity — but something unusual started showing up in its film. What began as a manufacturing mystery quickly turned into a discovery with global implications.

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical techniques to describe real-world systems and solve technologically relevant problems. This can include the mechanics of a moving body, the ...