Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

New research shows wealthy families use private tutoring to widen the academic gap. Here's what the data says and what parents at every income level can do about it.

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

The ratio of doughnuts to students was deliciously disproportionate Monday afternoon as Abby Fremouw's third graders applied ...