AMSTERDAM, N.Y. — Tecler Elementary School in the Greater Amsterdam School District recently had Math and Reading Night. The district said the school was buzzing with excitement as students and ...

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...