Chinese mathematician Wei Dongyi, a two-time IMO gold medalist who once turned down Harvard, is also known for his frugal lifestyle, reportedly spending less than 300 yuan (US$44) a month in Beijing.

C al Newport has been described as the “man who never procrastinates,” so I expected him to be punctual for our interview. He ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid acceleration of its ability to solve some of arithmetic’s most challenging ...

A State College-area high school student will return home from spring break with a major research prize under his belt.

Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But ...

We're stopping at individual productivity,” according to Atlassian's AI evangelist Sven Peters, and that is hampering true transformation.

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

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

Connecticut lawmakers are weighing a statewide, bell-to-bell ban on student cellphones, and schools are split on whether it helps.