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School is great for learning how to do maths, but it’s notoriously bad at teaching us how to actually function as humans in a high-pressure world. We spend years mastering grammar, yet most of us hit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maths wizard Matt Parker is a TV star, a best-selling author and a YouTuber with more than 1.3 million subscribers. And now he’s on his way to Plymouth where he wants to see your protractor. That’s ...

This story about math standards was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and ...

How much does it cost to hire a new physician? And how much do we gain? As the academic year moves towards its inexorable end, things are shaking up. Senior residents around the country are starting ...