Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve problems. Math puzzles can boost analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. A brain teaser challenge typically ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

New edition builds on the widely used prior version—now expanded to 530+ questions, added diagnostics, difficulty ...

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro is here, and it just doubled its reasoning score ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Generative AI has created a problem that goes far deeper than cheating. When a tool like ChatGPT can write a coherent essay, solve a multi-step math problem, analyze a historical event, and produce a ...

Some of Epstein’s ties to the school were hiding in plain sight, yet Harvard officials missed or looked past them during ...