The most compelling reason for learning about infinite series (or so I tell my students) is that they’re stunning connectors. They reveal ties between different areas of mathematics, unexpected links ...

Cantor’s radical idea was to introduce, in a mathematically rigorous way, absolute infinities to the realm of mathematics.

Math is all over "Infinite Jest," for instance. Students at the novel's tennis academy obsess over equations, not only to keep score in tennis and other, more eccentric games but also to calculate ...

With a surprising new proof, two young mathematicians have found a bridge across the finite-infinite divide, helping at the same time to map this strange boundary. The boundary does not pass between ...

Yet even such unimaginably large numbers are vanishingly small, compared with infinite sets, which have played an important role in mathematics for more than 100 years. Simply counting objects ...

When he died at just 58 in 1912, the French Minister of Education called him “a kind of poet of the infinite ... Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Fields Medal.

Mathematics is often about uncovering patterns ... or digits as the number itself are called automorphic. There are an infinite number of these: 0, 1, 5, 6, 25, 76, 376, and so on.

The joy of mathematics – this is what the biennial Hang Lung Mathematics Awards (HLMA), now in its seventh cohort, is all about. This year’s Gold Award went to Bishop Hall Jubilee School and ...

Several years ago, I tried to explain infinity to a class of fifth graders. In the story that I told them, I was preparing to eat a piece of cake when a friend walked in on me. Being polite, I ...