There are no known examples so far, but mathematicians are hopeful. Mathematicians have revealed a new category of “digitally delicate” prime numbers. These infinitely long primes turn back to ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

Microsoft has fixed a major bug preventing Microsoft 365 users from launching the classic Outlook email client on Windows systems. As explained when it acknowledged the issue in September, affected ...

At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display. By Siobhan Roberts It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the Dutch sculptor Rinus Roelofs organizes his life ...

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

In a college-entrance-exam landscape long dominated by the SAT and the ACT, a relative newcomer has started to gain traction—especially in red states. The Classic Learning Test, first unveiled a ...

Higher education stakeholders have noted that math anxiety can hold students back from pursuing some disciplines or major programs, but a new analysis from Gallup finds that young Americans over all ...

Samsung’s biannual updates to the Classic lineup are usually among my favorites, thanks to the rotating bezel, which is also present this year and remains my preferred method of controlling a ...