In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...

HARRISBURG, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Math Nation-Pennsylvania, a supplemental Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 math program, is now available at no cost to all Pennsylvania public schools and districts ...

A few weeks ago, an animated discussion unfolded in a WhatsApp group whose members are mathematicians interested in the Indian Mathematical Olympiad. The spark was a Nature paper that announced a ...