This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

A math problem has left the internet stumped and social media users scrambling from their nearest protractor to figure it out. The problem reads: "5)a) Dina is baking. The cake bakes from 11 o'clock ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A troubling math problem that led to a "heated conversation" among one fifth-grader's family has sparked similar debate ...

Shekar Natarajan is the founder and CEO of Orchestro.AI. This example is one of many that demonstrates how supply chains are complex, interconnected, interdependent systems. They follow the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for ...