Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whenever you look at a clock, do you always see the same time? It might be 11:11 or 3:33. Maybe repeating numbers have made their ...

Special number sequences—such as Fibonacci, Lucas, Horadam and Jacobsthal families—exhibit rich algebraic structures that underpin a broad spectrum of mathematical theory and application. At their ...

One of the curious properties of mathematics is its beauty. But exactly what mathematicians mean by beauty is hard to capture. Perhaps the most famous example is Euler’s relation, e iπ + 1 = 0, which ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra’s oldest challenge – solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, ...

Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. Each number in a sequence is called a term. There are some special sequences that you should recognise. The most important of ...