In the past year, President Trump and members of his administration have shown that they would fail miserably in such interviews. Many administrations boast about their successes and perhaps ...

Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

IBM’s ( IBM) Software and Chief Commercial Officer, Rob Thomas, wrote in a Monday blog post that translating COBOL code isn’t equivalent to modernizing enterprise systems, emphasizing that platform ...

Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma ...

Policies are an expression and extension of a candidate or party’s values. Does the ‘big tent’ party still have any? One of the great Liberal party pastimes is to simultaneously look for both ...

Georgia, California, Tennessee, Utah and Oregon — have better aligned high school and college math courses in recent years, ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Mathematics is often seen as the most reliable system humans have ever created. Yet buried deep within its foundations lies a flaw that cannot be removed, only managed. This issue doesn’t make math ...

Paul Erdős, known as the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, proposed many unsolved problems throughout his life, known as 'Erdős problems.' GPT-5.2 Pro solved one of these problems, and ...

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 ...

In math classrooms, students often interpret a wrong answer as a dead end, making it hard for them to recognize that mistakes can be one of the most powerful ways to learn. “Just as we reread in ...