Harvard University’s policy capping A grades among undergraduates doesn’t officially start for another year, but students ...

The 74 reports on a summer program in Birmingham, Alabama, improving skills for 40,000 kids through engaging activities, ...

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it ...

Here’s a question that keeps researchers up at night: can AI actually do math, or is it just really good at pattern-matching against problems it’s already seen? A group of 30 mathematicians at Harvard ...

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Jeffrey Epstein wanted most of his money to go to his girlfriend. Mr. Epstein’s brother and a Harvard math professor were also named beneficiaries. By Matthew Goldstein Two days before he killed ...

The “crisis” in college math readiness prompted a new inquiry from Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to 35 universities. The inquiry seeks to “to uncover the root cause of students’ dramatic decline in ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Lauren K. Williams illustrates a point about mathematics with a pool toy during a public lecture in September 2025. Williams won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in October 2025. Credit: Nataliya ...