Mathematics

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OpenAI and Google Outperform Top Math Students But Not one Another

Mathematics /

AI systems from OpenAI and Google DeepMind have earned gold-medal scores in the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO), one of the most prestigious and difficult math competitions for high school students, the companies announced separately in recent days. The achievement highlights the rapid progress of AI and how closely matched OpenAI and Google remain in […]

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It’s Pi Day! Here’s Why This Unique Number Deserves Worldwide Recognition.

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Each year on March 14, math enthusiasts celebrate Pi Day, honoring one of the most famous irrational numbers. Represented by the Greek letter π and approximated as 3.14, pi highlights both the practicality and beauty of mathematics. Pi defines the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, an unending, non-repeating decimal. Unlike other constants

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Amateur Discovers The Largest Known Prime Number, And it’s Gigantic

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Breaking a Six-Year Drought in Prime Discoveries A recent participant in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has broken a six-year stretch without new discoveries in the quest for large prime numbers, among the usual composites. This new prime number has an impressive 41,024,320 decimal digits—it would take months to write out in full.

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Need to Tackle a Complex Problem? Applied Mathematics Can Provide the Solution

Applied Mathematics, Mathematics /

You’ve likely used math to solve common tasks, like figuring out a restaurant tip or calculating a room’s square footage. But how does math contribute to tackling more complex challenges, such as finding a cure for a disease? As an applied mathematician, I use mathematical tools to analyze and solve complex biological problems. My work

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Math Behind Meeting Scheduling Headaches

Applied Mathematics, Mathematics /

A new study by physicists explores a common frustration: scheduling meetings. The central question is how challenging it is to find a time when everyone is available. As expected, the results weren’t encouraging. “We wanted to understand the odds,” said Harsh Mathur, a physics professor at Case Western Reserve University. “Probability theory, which started with

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Mathematician Explains Equals Has Multiple Meanings

Applied Mathematics, Mathematics /

Mathematics has many abstract concepts that are often difficult to grasp, but we assumed the meaning of ‘equals’ was well understood. However, it appears that mathematicians disagree on the exact definition of equality, which could pose challenges for computer programs increasingly used to verify mathematical proofs. This academic debate has simmered for decades but has

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How to Make Math Lectures More Fun

Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Science /

In high school math classes, play often disappears from the learning process. However, Kathy Sun is finding new ways to make math playful in high school. According to Sun, students usually focus on mastering procedures in math, rather than understanding math’s broader contributions and community aspects. Sun, who is a researcher and professor at Santa

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Study Suggests Math Homework May Harm More Than Help

Applied Mathematics, Mathematics /

A recent study indicates that assigning math homework to students can have adverse effects, especially when the tasks are overly complex, making it difficult for children to complete them even with parental assistance. Researchers from the University of South Australia and St. Francis Xavier University in Canada conducted interviews with eight Canadian families. These interviews

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Do You Know Who Invented Math?

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Carl Friedrich Gauss famously declared mathematics the “queen of the sciences.” However, as history’s renowned mathematician, he might have been slightly biased. Ask a physicist, and she might retort with the provocative analogy that “physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.” But regardless of whether mathematics wears the crown, it undoubtedly stands as the doyenne of

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