News that large language models (LLM) have made major advances in solving Erdős problems – a set of problems formulated by the renowned 20 th-century mathematician Paul Erdős – has created an ...

Folding a flat piece of paper into a torus — a shape with a hole in the middle — demands origami skill. That’s something mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz lacks. Yet he answered a lingering ...

An extremely fast microscopy method to research the interaction of light and matter makes it possible to study optical processes on very short timescales. To this end, a German–Italian research team ...

Teaching math to English learners in middle and high school requires a nuanced approach. Those students are often at very different places in their language development and in their academic grounding ...

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it ...

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Why combining structure, application, and collaboration in classrooms leads to deeper learning and improving math instruction ...

Donna earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Pomona College, California. She then went on to earn a Master’s degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...