For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved a math puzzle that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y, and z ...

Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated ...

For students, mathematics is perhaps one of the most divisive subjects out there. Some are great at it while others just don’t quite get it. For most entrance exams in universities and colleges, high ...

At most colleges there's only one thing less popular than a calculus class: a 9 a.m. calculus class. But on a recent morning at Williams College, all 50-odd seats are filled as Edward Burger teaches ...

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