Retirement used to come with a fairly simple math problem: figure out your monthly income, find someplace warm and quiet, and ...

The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund, which supports retirement benefits, is now projected to deplete its ...

Think about the last time you did a grocery run and came out surprised at the total. Maybe you didn't buy anything unusual. Just the usual things, the stuff you always get. And the receipt still felt ...

When Martin Leibowitz joined the Wall Street bond-trading firm Salomon Brothers in 1969, at age 33, he knew a lot about math and very little about bonds. He asked his new colleagues to explain how ...

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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ Long-Term Trend assessment, scores haven’t ...

This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...