A Korean mathematician has won international recognition for solving a geometry puzzle that had resisted proof for nearly six ...

For nearly 60 years, the “moving sofa problem,” a long-standing mathematical puzzle, remained unsolved. Last year, a Korean ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in ...

Carina Hong, 24, raised $64 million to build an AI mathematician that discovers new theorems and solves century-old problems.

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

You might be staring at your budget, wondering how you’re supposed to cover rent, debt, and everything else on $20–$25 an ...

The issue: Many runners (particularly women) report that their fitness trackers tell them they’re exercising in a higher zone ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...