(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a ...

In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scribbled a note on a textbook margin that would baffle mathematicians for more than three centuries. And that’s all he wrote. Fermat died before supplying the missing proof ...

A 37000-YEAR-OLD Babylonian clay tablet mystery has been cracked by Australian researchers, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table. Since the discovery of the famous ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the ...

In an entertaining and effective math primer, two children solve a haunted house's riddles using algebra. "The two sides of each equation are balanced. They're equal," Adler explains, before ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Airs Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, April 1 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 Underlying civilization’s stunning advancements and the technological wonders of the modern age is something ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a ...