Eighteen-year-old Bulgarian student Nikola Veselinov won the $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award at the 2026 Regeneron ...

Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models. Recent examples include OpenAI’s disproof of the unit distance conjecture, and ...

Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the ...

The International Congress of Mathematicians, held this year at the Convention Center, is one of the most prestigious math ...

For many of us, high-level math classes can be confusing. "I find math hard for me, which kind of makes me somewhat dislike it," said Sophia Cox, a student at Uplift Williams School in Dallas. To help ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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Einstein’s equations look like abstract math, but when the logic is followed all the way through, the results get unsettling fast. They predict effects like time slowing down, space bending, and ...