The Poincaré conjecture has been in the news lately. Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman submitted a proof 3 years ago claiming that he had proved the famous conjecture. In August, he won a ...

Across 81 countries and education systems, 15-year-olds lost the equivalent of three-quarters of a year of instruction in math and a half year of instruction in reading, though they held ground in ...

History has had no shortage of outstanding female mathematicians, from Hypatia of Alexandria to Ada Lovelace, and yet no woman has ever won the Fields medal - the Nobel prize of the maths world. The ...

THE MATHS FACTOR helps children with their numerical skills and was created by Countdown star Carol Vorderman but how do you watch it? Express.co.uk has everything you need to know. With the ...

When you think of maths, who's the first person to spring to mind? Of course, it's ever-fabulous Carol Vorderman. Express.co.uk spoke to her about this latest maths challenge sweeping the internet and ...

An exciting new study reveals the hidden genetic architecture of quantitative ability, showing how brain wiring and signaling shape math skills independently of general intelligence. Study: A genetic ...