In a response that reached the Sentinel after our print deadline, the CFO’s office answered some of our questions regarding his criticism of Orange County. This ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

Bill Rollins Jr., 97, wrote and self-published 'Trisecting an Angle,' to try to share his solution with the world.

U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly ...

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

The artificial intelligence community celebrated a remarkable milestone in 2025 when both Google DeepMind and OpenAI systems ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

The calculator on your Apple devices can do more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. Here's how it can help you with all kinds of math problems. ICE arrests leader of Iowa's largest school ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

Philanthropist and billionaire heiress Liz Simons, who donated $250,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, a PAC supporting Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, oversees a foundation that is reportedly ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...