If you were to list all the natural numbers from 1 to 1,000,000,000, which digit would you have to write least often and which would you have to write most often? Show puzzle solution First, we look ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

The New York Times has another excellent little puzzle game to add to your daily Wordle. This one, however, taps into your math skills rather than your vocabulary. Still, I find the two rather ...

The New York Times has added a new daily Wordle-style puzzle game to its library in the form of Digits. This collection of math conundrums tasks you with reaching a designated number by using six ...

Prime numbers are only divisible by themselves and one. Robert Brook via Getty Images In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

DOODLES AND DIGITS: How It's Math is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

On Pi Day (March 14), NASA reminded us why we need only a small slice of the irrational number's infinite decimal places to explain most of the known universe. When you purchase through links on our ...