Who doesn’t love a good math holiday? Most people know about Pi Day (3/14), but there are even rarer days on the calendar ...

Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course I somehow forgot to attend, or that I faked my way ...

Could the universe itself defy every possible computer program? A team of physicists now claims the answer is yes-backed not ...

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Mathematics support in higher education encompasses a diverse array of initiatives designed to bolster student understanding and performance in mathematically intensive subjects. This support can ...

CSHL Associate Professor David McCandlish (center) meets with the study’s co-authors, former CSHL postdocs Anna Posfai and Juannan Zhou, now an assistant professor at the University of Florida.

A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of algebra and attention to detail with a pictograph math problem that assigns numbers to different plants. Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, Hungary, shared ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

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