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The Punjab School of Mathematics, originating from Sarvadaman Chowla's 1925 paper, celebrates its centenary alongside Prof.

After 27 years, Berkeley Math Circle has shut down its flagship program, BMC-Upper, due to “stringent” new campus background ...

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

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Wolfram Alpha Often called the “computational knowledge engine,” Wolfram Alpha is one of the most advanced math-solving tools available. It doesn’t just provide answers; it helps users understand how ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

A teacher helps middle school students solve a math problem at a Friendship Public Charter School campus in Washington. (Jahi Chikwendiu / Washington Post via Getty Images) American students are ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...