The world of geometry just witnessed a pivotal breakthrough. Mathematicians at Monash University have cracked a centuries-old puzzle dating back to the 17th century, extending Descartes’ Circle ...

I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...

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 ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

Circle to Search can now help students with homework, making it easy to search for instructions and answers without leaving the digital homework screen. Later this year, Circle to Search will be able ...

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries. Sphere packing might seem ...