While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

The 29-year-old Brazilian entrepreneur, often dubbed an “MIT math nerd,” has risen to become the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, with a net worth of US$1.3 billion from her stake in the ...

Luana Lopes Lara is now known as an “MIT math nerd” who co-founded prediction market Kalshi and became the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire, but her story began far from the tech field, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

Harvard Mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams has been awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship for her groundbreaking research bridging theoretical mathematics and physics. Her work on algebraic ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, from the apps on your phone to the cars on the road. If you want to get started with AI, you don’t need to spend a lot of money. MIT free AI courses ...

A star student at her small Alabama high school, Kyra Richardson graduated confident in her academic prowess in all but one subject: math. By the time she arrived at Harvard in the fall of 2024, it ...

I met with Ilana Walder-Biesanz, the leader of National Math Stars, to discuss her innovative program that's changing the landscape of advanced mathematics education for exceptionally gifted children.

During its short existence, Kalshi has taken a battering ram to the regulatory establishment in its bid to give Americans the inalienable right to bet on just about everything. The US election, Taylor ...