Dr Reyaz Ahmad                  Math fluency is no longer just about speed in mental calculations or rote memorisation of ...

As we say goodbye to 2025, let’s delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number. 44 2 = 1936 45 2 = 2025 46 2 = 2116 And since 45 = 20 + 25, ...

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UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Editor's Note: This is the ninth and final in our series on Chief AI Officers in Healthcare. Other CAIO profiles include Dennis Chornenky at UC Davis Health, Dr. Karandeep Singh at UC San Diego Health ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

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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 ...