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

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

👉 Learn how to solve for unknown variables in congruent triangles. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. When one of the values of a pair of congruent ...

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 ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

is a stipendiary lecturer in mathematics at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. She did her DPhil at the University of Oxford. It is a hot July day in London and I take the bus to Bloomsbury. I ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...