1.  The biggest known prime number: The number 2^43,112,609-1 is prime! With 12,978,189  digits, this is the first known prime with more than 10 million digits.  ...read more

2. The Poincare Conjecture is now a theorem. The brilliant proof by Grigory Perelman was chosen by Science Magazine as the top scientific breakthrough of 2006. read

3. Literary sleuth: Filipino statistician Jose Nilo Binongo uses mathematics to unravel the mystery of authorship of The Royal Book of Oz....read

4. The "thrill of pi" leads Japanese mathematician to achieve an enormous feat of computation.  read...

5. Mathematicians have made a crochet model of chaos - and are challenging anyone else to repeat the effort... read more

6. Mathematicians work behind the scenes in Hollywood, Shuttle launches, and crime investigations... read more

7. Math leads spacecraft on joy rides through the solar system... read

8. Can plants do mathematics?    read

9. Farewell, calculus author Louis Leithold ... read