Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...

Every day, dozens of like-minded mathematicians gather on an online forum called Zulip to build what they believe is the future of their field. They’re all devotees of a software program called Lean.

It's no secret that math is a subject many find challenging, possibly even intimidating. Too often, we hear both adults and students openly proclaim themselves as "bad at math," stating they "just can ...

While English, math and science form the trilogy of staple sectors that children learn throughout school, only one is frequently looked back on as "unnecessary," "unusable" or redundant to adult life.

When Vijaya Kumar Murthy first received an email from Abhishek Lodha in 2024 to lead the Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute (LMSI) in Mumbai, he thought it was a fraud. A famous Indian realtor was ...

Psychohistory is “the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers.” In Foundation, an Apple TV+ series loosely based on the books by Isaac Asimov, psychohistory is the use of mathematical models to ...