At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

“Math is truth,” says Mark Hamill’s aged patriarch, Albie Krantz, in Mike Flanagan’s recent adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck. “It’s used in everything. In every job. In every facet of ...

OpenAI has achieved "gold medal-level performance" at the International Math Olympiad, notching another important milestone for AI's fast-paced growth. Alexander Wei, a research scientist at OpenAI ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. To its proponents, DOGE is supposed to be a crack team of high-IQ specialists assembled by ...

Mathematics skills learnt in real-world situations may not translate to the classroom and vice versa, according to a new study. A team surveyed children in India who work in markets, to see whether ...

Mr. Taparia and Mr. Buchanan are professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business. The Lower East Side of Manhattan is home to some of the oldest and most storied charities in the country, ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

Calcea Johnson (right), currently studying environmental engineering at Louisiana State University, published the new study with her high school classmate, Ne'Kiya Jackson (left), now a student in ...