The equation contains the five most important numbers in math — 1, 0, pi, i, and e — with the three basic operations that give math structure: Addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.

Sean Nank, an award-winning math educator, discusses the challenges of teaching mathematics—and the subject's greatness.

Fractal geometry is one of the most elegant and beautiful branches of mathematics. An early analysis of fractals came from a surprising and weird phenomenon that occurs when you try to measure a ...

Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of ...

Art, nature and design all benefit from the Golden Mean and the beautiful math of the Fibonacci sequence ...

The Princeton University professor was finishing the book on "beautiful mathematical questions" when he was killed in a car crash last year.

The post went onto say that the poster was not intended to be satire, but the math department itself enjoyed "a good laugh." "The posters have been replaced with a more appropriate message.

Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of ...