By proving that systems long believed to be stable can still "blow up" to infinity, Professor Frank Merle has been awarded ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

If you own an S&P 500 fund, you probably think the choice doesn’t matter much. They all hold the same 500 stocks. They all track the same index. They all deliver roughly the same returns. You’d be ...

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary school-level math equation posted on X (formerly Twitter) is. Over the weekend, ...

The American workforce expects an unmet need for over a million employees to fill STEM-related jobs by 2030. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...