Math

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets

A Polish mathematician's theory on the famous problem of bisecting three solids using one plane

The intermediate value theorem shows us how to find an even center on an irregular shape

You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moon—or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss

Simpson’s paradox demonstrates how counterintuitive statistics can be

A start-up has surprised the scientific community with a breakthrough: translating a modern proof into a programming language for verification using AI. But not everyone is celebrating

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

A new challenge reveals how well AI can tackle true math problems

Whether 0.999... equals 1 is the subject of bitter dispute in countless online forums

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation

The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve

When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from your friends’ brackets?