This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump has recently claimed his tariffs will generate so much money that Americans could soon stop paying federal income taxes. But ...

ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, appeared to improvise and make human-like mistakes when tackling a 2,400-year-old math problem, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

A recently released report has criticized the effectiveness of California’s teacher preparation programs, specifically when it comes to training new elementary school teachers in math education. Cal ...

While there are thousands of mathematicians in the world, only 20 of them have managed to begin to understand one of mathematics’ most cryptic extraterrestrial-like theories. Known as the ...

The new U.S. tariffs rattling markets and promising globe-spanning trade barriers reflect a fixation of President Trump’s: the difference between how much stuff the U.S. buys from and sells to each of ...

ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. is a news editor with ...

What does math and musical performance have in common? That's what Ami Radunskaya, a guest lecturer from Pomona College, answered for roughly 70 people during "A Celebration of Mathematics and Music" ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

In 2022, two high school students created a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—something that’s only ever been accomplished by a few professional mathematicians. Now, a new article not ...