(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a ...

Is adding fractions more fun when the reward is a big bag of gold? The answer is yes when it comes to Math Mysteries: Fractions and Math Mysteries: Advanced Fractions, two education programs for ...

It`s not a race; it`s not even a competition. But when math teacher Linda Bailey urges her high school calculus students to ”go for it,” 18 heads hunch over their desks to ponder a problem. There is a ...

An Oxford professor is now $700,000 richer for solving a 300-year-old math mystery, the Telegraph reports. In 1994, Andrew Wiles, 62, cracked Fermat's Last Theorem, which was put forth by 17th-century ...

In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scribbled a note on a textbook margin that would baffle mathematicians for more than three centuries. And that’s all he wrote. Fermat died before supplying the missing proof ...

A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award. Grigory Perelman ...

MARGARET WERTHEIM is the science columnist for the LA Weekly and director of the Institute for Figuring, which has recently been hosting a series of lectures on knot theory. YOU HAVE to hand it to ...

As 25 pupils look on, Phillip Conboy begins writing numbers on a chalkboard to begin a lesson in negative figures. ”You may use your calculators if you want to,” he tells his pupils at Prairie Junior ...