This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.

Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular ...

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have proposed a mathematical framework for a warp drive that operates ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The proposed ...

The odds of a perfect bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion — but one math professor thinks he's cracked the code for March ...

Despite significant mathematical refinements, econometrics has shown the weaknesses of its logical underpinnings, primarily during economic turning points—financial crises, pandemics, and geopolitical ...

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Struggling with math? These proven and practical math methods break down complex topics into easy-to-follow steps. Learn smarter, solve problems quicker, and build strong foundations without feeling ...

Recently, I joined my colleagues, advocates of the run/walk method (popularized by Jeff Galloway), on a few of their weekly workouts during lunch. As someone who’s never done run/walk intervals before ...

Everyday conversation is a constant balancing act. We subtly adjust our tone, word choice, and emphasis depending on who we are speaking with and what we expect them to understand. These adjustments ...