One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Scheduled to run from March to December 2026, the Olympiad is expected to engage students from nearly 100 schools across West ...

Vadodara: For many students, mathematics is where numbers stop making sense and anxiety begins. Recent data reflects this ...

I never expected to own a home. I wasn’t born into generational wealth. I grew up poor. There was—and is—no big family inheritance coming my way. Not property. Not cash. Not stocks or bonds or ...

Neetya Pujara may only be 16, but her accomplishments are many — including turning her passion for math into community ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...