Tumblr, with its rowdy emphasis on fandom, memes, and GIF-culture, might seem an unlikely place for meaningful education to take place, especially in the field of mathematics. But surprisingly, a new ...

If you thought the mathematical proofs you did in high school were long, you haven’t seen the newest one out of the University of Liverpool — computer scientists Alexei Lisitsa and Boris Konev came up ...

If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That’s the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of ...

In a weekend feature at The New York Times Katie Hafner tries very hard to speak ill of Wikipedia. They say "anyone can edit" but some entries are closed. Sometimes people stick in lies, which take ...