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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: After an assault in 2002, Jason Padgett suffered a brain injury that instilled within him a perviously unknown mathematical genius. Padgett became ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four ...

Artificial intelligence has once again pushed the boundaries of what is possible. On November 14, 2025, an AI system, aptly named the AI Math Genius, achieved a significant milestone by delivering 100 ...

“Just like Mozart could hear a symphony in his head, you dance with numbers up to infinity,” says Professor Hardy (Jeremy Irons), admiringly, to his protégé Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a ...

John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental ...