A tension and anxiety around numbers and maths problems can have far-reaching impacts on an individual and society ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

The remarkable honey bee can tell the difference between different numbers at a glance. A fresh, astonishing revelation about the 'numeracy' of insects has emerged. The remarkable honey bee can tell ...

Turns out that honeybees can distinguish between even and odd numbers, just like humans. The Telegraph reports how it was researchers in Australia who came to this apian realization by presenting the ...