Renowned mathematician and beloved Princeton University professor, John Horton Conway, died this week (April 11) of COVID-19. He was 82. Conway is best known as the inventor of the hugely influential and inspirational artificial life program, The Game of Life.

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Winner of the math world’s equivalent of a Nobel, he puzzled out equations describing the vibrating of strings, the flow of heat and the movement of water.

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Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.

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The intermediate axis theorem.

Back in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.

The ancient Greeks wondered when “irrational” numbers can be approximated by fractions. By proving the longstanding Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture, two mathematicians have provided a complete answer.

It’s been called the most difficult problem in mathematics. What is the Riemann Hypothesis?

It was completely legal and it won them millions. Jon Wertheim reports on how Jerry Selbee and his wife Marge used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games

The origin of these angles in twisted bilayer graphene may be fundamentally connected to the quantum Hall effect, say Harvard researchers. By Belle Dumé.

To multiply two numbers by hand take a few steps but it's something we're taught in school. When dealing with big numbers, really big numbers, we need to a quicker way to do things.

The multiplication you learn at school is too slow for computers, so mathematicians are always searching for better methods.

Children as young as six feel fear, rage and despair as a result of “mathematics anxiety”, a condition which can cause physical symptoms and behaviour problems in class, according to a study. Pupils in both primary and secondary school can find themselves locked in a cycle of despair, suffering from anxiety which harms their maths performance, which in turn leads to increased anxiety.

Happy π day! We now know the first 31.4 trillion digits of the tastiest mathematical constant

To vanquish a vampire, one generally employs a stake, a cross, a string of garlic, or a combination of all three. But there’s one highly effective anti-vampire weapon that few think to use: math. By Ella Morton. (Oct. 27, 2015)

If you shoot a rubber band off your thumb, why doesn't it hit your thumb? The answer, it turns out, involves some pretty serious physics.

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From Death Star to Hogwarts, pop culture structures are as every bit iconic as the characters. How much would they cost to build in real life? We estimate the costs of five iconic structures.