This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Learn practical strategies to improve accuracy and speed in SSC mathematics through structured practice, topic-wise study and focused preparation.

👉 Learn how to solve proportions. Two ratios are said to be proportional when the two ratios are equal. Thus, proportion problems are problems involving the equality of two ratios. When given a ...

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

Learn how to solve with similar polygons. Two polygons are said to be similar if the corresponding angles are congruent (equal). When two polygons are similar the corresponding sides are proportional.