Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

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In this true or false quiz, we will present you with 10 intriguing facts about mathematics to test your general knowledge.

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A geometry puzzle first posed in 1966 has baffled mathematicians for decades. Known as the moving sofa problem, it asks for ...

Imagine wrestling a bulky sofa around a right-angled hallway bend, yelling \"pivot!\" like in that famous ‘Friends’ ...

Amid fierce competition among Chinese universities, the former child prodigy has returned to his hometown for his new role. For mathematical genius Wan Daqing, life is no longer a competition between ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right? When you purchase ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...