The International Day of Mathematics on March 14 celebrates mathematician Pi's birthday and promotes awareness and appreciation of mathematics worldwide through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, ...

Coral reefs can be crocheted. The atmosphere can be knit. And a stop sign can be folded into a pair of pants. Welcome to the intersection of math and handicraft. Unexpectedly, handicraft in general, ...

Solving this maths puzzle without falling into the common trap is harder than it looks. Exercising your brain is just as important for your health as keeping the rest of your body in check is, and we ...

For faculty and graduate students who would like to run a project as part of the Experimental Mathematics Lab, please contact us with a project description. We would be very happy to provide ...

Sure, you could learn about the worst red carpet looks from the Oscars, or watch a public celebrity feud unfold in real time, but Twitter isn’t the ideal platform for scholarly pursuits. Until now.

THE launch of an ambitious high schools maths, science and commerce improvement project in Soweto at the weekend has been likened to sharpening an axe to easily cut a tree, writes Victor Mecoamere.

A maths wizard has discovered the largest known prime number and it's an amazing 17 MILLION digits long. Curtis Cooper, of the University of Central Missouri, in the US found it by using hundreds of ...