O N JUNE 7TH millions of young Chinese stepped into exam halls to take the gaokao, China’s gruelling national university-entrance exam. The results will decide where they can st ...

This game is end to end! UPDATE: Solution is here Today’s offering is for fans of the number 4. It’s a cute puzzle that offers up its solution in an elegant way. Nose to tail There is a number N ...

Earlier today I set this elegant number puzzle. Here it is again with a solution. Nose to tail There is a number N beginning with 4 such that moving the 4 to the end of it creates a new number that is ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...

Miley Cyrus is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 3 with Endless Summer Vacation. The 13-track project debuts with a total of 119,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 61,000 ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

Red Lobster is bringing back its famous “Endless Shrimp” promotion starting Monday, marking a surprising revival of one of its most recognizable all-you-can-eat offerings. The deal will return for a ...

Shrimp lovers will notice a key item missing from Red Lobster's new menu. "Relevant, compelling and exciting is what we want Red Lobster to be for the future, and so we’re working on that now," ...

Number theorist Gerd Faltings has won this year’s Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo announced on 19 March. Faltings, ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...