The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Making demographic comparisons across datasets and across time requires rigor and consistency in group definitions. Without this, one risks reporting change that is not real. Since some of our ...

The 2026 Six Nations will be won by either Ireland or France, with England's match in Paris deciding who claims the title. Ireland moved top of the standings with a bonus-point 43-21 win over Scotland ...

This is the course webpage for Math304, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University. Spring 2021. In this course we will investigate Rubik's cube, the 15-puzzle, TopSpin, and other permutation ...

The final round of league phase fixtures in the 2025-26 Champions League is finally upon us, and it promises to be the most dramatic yet. Only table toppers Arsenal and Bayern Munich have already ...

For many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the next academic stage. Through years of conversations with executives, educators, parents, and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Picture a tune that plays with your mind. It does not go straight but skips and flips in ways you do not expect. That is math rock. It avoids common music paths, which makes it feel fresh and smart.

In 2011, an anonymous 4chan poster asked how many episodes of a particular anime they would have to watch if they wanted to watch the minimum episodes in every possible way. The problem with this is ...

In one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first moves as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the agency released guidance Wednesday for the US government, external partners and the ...