Mathematicians around the world have expressed their belief that a discussion on the overseas bulletin board 4chan may solve a difficult problem called ` `The Minimal Superpermutation Problem,'' which ...

The Miami Heat will spend the next few days in Boston trying to figure out a math problem. That math problem was a big problem for the Heat in Game 1 against the Boston Celtics, as the top-seeded ...

An 80-year-old problem concerning the simplex method, known as the mathematics of optimization, was recently solved. Getty Images In the movie 'Good Will Hunting,' the protagonist, a janitor at the ...

The Monty Hall problem is a difficult problem in probability theory that is so famous that even a well-known mathematician mistakes it as 'a problem in which the answer that seems intuitively correct ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...