Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that ...

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has released a massive, public collection of proof-based math problems ...

Goldbach’s conjecture sounds almost too simple: every even number greater than two should be the sum of two primes.

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

It’s 4 a.m. on a Tuesday, and most of Charlottesville is still asleep, but Daniel James is already up and moving. By 6 a.m., he’ll be standing in front of a room at an ACAC fitness center, microphone ...

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 ...

On October 30, 1942, a group of destroyer warships from the British Royal Navy hunted down a Nazi submarine near the Nile Delta. The warships pounded the submarine with underwater explosions until it ...

Don Nelson is one of the winningest coaches in NBA history. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Ronald Martinez / Allsport / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk ...

Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers ...

A composer, a conductor and a pianist share the most difficult pieces they brought to life. By Roslyn Sulcas “When you get a commission, there might or might not be restrictions; how long, what the ...