Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg answers the internet's burning questions about geometry. How are new shapes still being discovered? Where are we using Pythagorean theorem in real life? How many holes ...

Martin Hairer, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne. Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

Mathematicians just made a big leap forward on one of the field’s all-time favorite problems. Curves—squiggly lines through space, such as a comet’s trajectory or a stock market trend—are some of math ...

Hungarian scholar Gábor Domokos aims to understand the physical world by describing its forms in the simplest possible geometry. It takes Gábor Domokos about an hour to pick his way up into the hills ...

When we're ruminating or worrying, it's often because we have a complex problem to solve. Mathematicians solve complex problems, but do it systematically. They have a process that helps them break ...