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

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Greg Kerkvliet began his 2024 title defense in pristine fashion, running to an 18-0 mark before falling to Minnesota’s 2x ...

California’s public universities were once excellent at milling out mostly competent graduates (along with the requisite duds ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, ...

Georgetown University psychologist Shadab Tabatabaeian, the paper’s lead author, imagines a “cool application” of their ...

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For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.