Ian Stewart's Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems is an entertaining and fresh look at some of the most vexing problems facing the field of mathematics. We asked him to pick the ...

Answer: 42.5 (Subtract 36 from 49, divide the answer by two. Add that number to 36 to get the answer). Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. What number do you get if you multiply all the numbers on a ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...