Monday’s Google Doodle honors Johann Karl Friedrich Gauß, a math super-genius who, assuming you’re not also a math super-genius, probably caused you some consternation in high school math. Born on ...

Two mathematicians can be equally brilliant and still value completely different parts of their own field. One is drawn to the branches with obvious, immediate application, the equations that predict ...

The world’s largest search engine paid tribute to a mathematical genius on Monday. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß, a man known to some as the “prince of mathematics,” was commemorated with a Google Doodle ...

Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science: German mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gaus. This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day of class: Sum up the digits from 1 to 100, without counting. But first, he ...

For a lot of people, mathematics is the subject they were glad to leave behind at school. Cold, hard, full of rules and one right answer. So it can come as a surprise that one of the greatest minds ...