The launch of Roots of Unity was just in time for this year's Joint Mathematics Meetings, a mathapalooza put on by the two largest professional mathematical societies (the American Mathematical ...

You may know today, June 28, as Tau Day, a celebration of the number 2π, which some people believe to be the superior circle constant. I prefer to observe the most mathematically perfect day of the ...

For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians have searched for a single example of an odd perfect number—and found none. Computers have tested candidates beyond 10^2,200, while 51 even perfect numbers ...