Use a Venn diagram to find the HCF of two or more numbers An element that is contained in two different sets is a member of both of those sets and is in the intersection of the sets. close ...

In mid-October, Justin Gilmer flew from California to New York to attend a friend’s wedding. While on the East Coast he visited his former adviser, Michael Saks, a mathematician at Rutgers University, ...

A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a “holy grail of additive combinatorics.” Within a month, a loose collaboration verified it ...

Many students that choose to pursue business, social science or psychology courses think they’ve left their maths anxieties behind them. Having not studied maths since GCSE in some cases, the ...

Simple mathematical concepts such as counting appear to be firmly anchored in the natural process of thinking. Studies have shown that even very young children and animals possess such skills to a ...