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Hundreds of thousands of student athletes are returning to their college teams this fall. Earning a spot on collegiate ...

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little ...

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A calculus class may not be the first place you’d think to find oral exams. But Robin Pemantle is a longtime fan. A math professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Pemantle believes that having ...

Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

Ivanna Poliashenko majored in mathematics with a concentration in statistics from Georgia State University Brian Brant is an associate editor for the human interest team at PEOPLE. He's been with the ...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted ...

The college football season is a little more than a month away. Soon, teams will begin their quest for a spot in the College Football Playoff. One of the favorites resides in Athens, Georgia, where ...

With a record number of new college students failing their first-year English or math classes, SUNY is redesigning those “gateway” courses. But they are not changing the amount of material students ...