In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

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Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need increasing from 1 in 100 to 1 in 8 students since 2020 due to factors such as COVID ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...

Dr. Marlene Tromp, President, Boise State University: Mark Becker, the president of the APLU, was in town to recognize Boise State for having the greatest student success program in the country this ...

Mastering essential skills can improve performance in Mathematics. When students are equipped with basic skills, their working memories aren’t taxed, and learning can become fun and encouraging.

The mathematics major at Boise State is a flexible degree designed for the expanding set of careers where math plays a central role. Graduates use the degree in jobs that prize critical thinking and ...

The students participating in the annual International Math Olympiad (IMO) represent some of the most talented young computational minds in the world. This year, they faced down a newly enhanced array ...