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If you're looking for a way to make your next get-together with family and friends more fun, engaging and even educational, try out some of these math trivia questions to get everyone's brains going.

Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago Faltings’s proof answered a question that had been open since the early ...

Twenty-one years ago this week, mathematicians released a list of the top seven unsolved problems in the field. Answering them would offer major new insights in fundamental mathematics and might even ...

It sounds like a math phobic’s worst nightmare or perhaps Good Will Hunting for the ages. Those wacky folks at he the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have put out a research request it calls ...