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

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

For Sarthak Dassarma ’26, mathematics isn’t a set of rules to memorize—it’s a story, and the Putnam Competition is just his ...

Xavier Velasco is taking college-level math and physics courses at Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy while maintaining his ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Pro has solved an open mathematical problem that human researchers could not crack since 2019, according to independent verification by Epoch AI. Contributed by mathematicians Will ...

More than 450 students from across New Jersey gathered on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 17, for the 2025 Stevens Mathematical Olympiad — an annual ...

Four days into war with Iran, at least one of the United States’ Gulf allies is already running low on crucial interceptor munitions used to defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks, two ...