In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

19 is only 1 away from 20, so you prefer to start by multiplying 20 times 5, which equals 100. Then we need to take away a squadron of 5, because there are actually only 19 squadrons, not 20. 100 take ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a new method for multiplying polynomials in Chebyshev form. Our approach has two steps. First, the well-known Karatsuba's algorithm is applied to polynomials ...

Learn the 3 times table and its division facts with the resources below. You can take a quiz, practise mental arithmetic and learn a 3 times table song. Need to practise your 5 times table? Then look ...

One university boosted gender diversity in advanced math by more than 30% in five years—here's how As the artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing industries explode, trained STEM ...

I will never forget this one day when Kevin was a preschooler. We had an IEP meeting, and one of his proposed math IEP goals was to be able to visualize and identify what 2 of something looks like or ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but ...