A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.

Back to school should feel like popping champagne—not hiding in the pantry with a calculator and a box of tissues. When our little darlings head back to class, we want them to be confident, curious, ...

Math Smarts: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Making Math More Fun! by Lynette Long, illus. by Tracy McGuinness, does just that, with clever aids such as a cardboard ""Smart Chart"" that slides to reveal ...

I've never been a math person, so when I found this viral math secret on TikTok that made sense to me and my right-sided brain, my mind was blown. Essentially it helps with percentages — and in ...

Antoine Chambert-Loir's initiation into one of math's oldest secret societies began with a phone call. “They told me Bourbaki would like me to come and see if I'd work with them,” he said.

DeepSeek made waves in early 2025, launching one of the world's first free-to-access thinking models. Now, the Chinese firm has just released DeepSeekMath-V2 with the objective of achieving ...

FORT LEE — For 10 seconds, a series of 50 random three-digit numbers flashed on the screen. After another second, abacus master Jeonghee Lee announced she'd finished the mental addition, correctly ...

Steven Strogatz — the acclaimed mathematician and author — hosts the new Quanta Magazine podcast “The Joy of Why.” On March 18, 2022, he joined Quanta editor Thomas Lin for a Simons Foundation ...