The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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Fashion followers know that trends tend to reappear on a 20-year cycle, and a new analysis of more than 150 years’ worth of ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

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Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

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Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and ...

A mathematician analyzed 150 years of women’s fashion to understand 20-year trend cycles, and how “optimal distinctiveness” ...