This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and ...

Brain scans show a complex string of numbers and letters in mathematical formulae can evoke the same sense of beauty as artistic masterpieces and music from the greatest composers. Mathematicians were ...

Many people are interested in mathematics, or at least interested in the idea of being interested in math. But for too many people, they find math daunting. But it needn’t be so. Yes, there is jargon ...

Mathematician Carlos Castillo-Chavez says that pi is so important to math that using its simple, geometric definition denies its greater powers. "[Pi] brings you into the world of mathematics, which ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Manjul Bhargava, who has loved mathematics for as long as he can remember, created and ...