For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

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An asteroid or a nuclear war can end the world. Mathematical musings from one’s armchair cannot. Birth rank seems to have no ...

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 ...

By listening to recordings of students solving math problems, teachers can determine their next steps, such as how to pair ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.

If you're stumped by an abstract math problem or a complicated physics concept, ChatGPT can help. Announced today, OpenAI's chatbot can now generate interactive visuals in response to prompts on math ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...

The reading initiative will scale up to high school, and the math initiative will scale down to elementary school, the mayor ...