Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Thursday, November 27, unveiled a new open-weight AI model designed to generate and self-verify mathematical theorems using advanced reasoning skills that the company ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Abstract: We present a bottom up review of complex numbers through analytical functions commonly used in digital signal processing. Standard practice uses complex exponential functions for engineering ...

Prime numbers are essential for technologies like RSA encryption, which rely on the difficulty of guessing these numerals. A new paper shows that another area of mathematics called integer partition ...

A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations without using radicals or irrational numbers. The method developed by ...

"The examiner was generous throughout in pointing out what methods and techniques students should use to approach a question, for example by indicating to use a certain formula or technique," said ...