Many people find complex math puzzling, including some mathematicians.

A new mathematical object has been discovered by Ce Bian, a maths student at the University of Bristol. The news caused great excitement when it was announced at a workshop organised by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and attended by 25 of the world’s leading analytic number theorists.

A new mathematical object was revealed yesterday during a lecture at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). Two researchers from the University of Bristol exhibited the first example of a third degree transcendental L-function. These L-functions encode deep underlying connections between many different areas of mathematics.

This morning, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel called for schools to focus on several “critical foundations” or benchmarks for U.S. schoolchildren. These recommendations require that by the end of the seventh grade, students should be fluent with whole numbers and fractions, and proficient with geometry and measurements.

A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.

A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.

How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho have arrived at a fresh answer with broad applications in science, technology and business.

Mathematics at Oxford University has been boosted by the appointment of Xunyu Zhou as Nomura Professor of Mathematical Finance. Professor Zhou is an expert in behavioural finance: examining why, for instance, city traders don’t always make rational decisions.

Girls in high school take as many math courses as boys, influenced by close friends and peers who are doing well in school. More than boys, girls look to their close friends when they make important decisions, such as whether to take math and what math classes to take, confirming how significant peers are during adolescence.

Three-dimensional snowflakes can now be grown in a computer using a program developed by mathematicians at UC Davis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Since the days of Hippocrates, people have known that certain illnesses come and go with the seasons. More recently, researchers have learned that these cyclic recurrences of disease, known as seasonality, are often related to the weather.