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Artificial intelligence has once again pushed the boundaries of what is possible. On November 14, 2025, an AI system, aptly named the AI Math Genius, achieved a significant milestone by delivering 100 ...

Albert Einstein wrote her obituary. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in ...

The Black Math Genius program was created by Assata Moore in collaboration with Freddie Taylor of Urban Intellectuals. The program is intentional about putting Black children at the center of their ...

>> Srinivasa Ramanujan displayed advanced mathematical ability since age 11 after reading a book on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney, lent by two college students, who were lodgers at his ...

“Just like Mozart could hear a symphony in his head, you dance with numbers up to infinity,” says Professor Hardy (Jeremy Irons), admiringly, to his protégé Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a ...

Jessica Wan has accumulated an estimated $90,000 in academic competition winnings throughout the years that will go toward college. The 16-year-old Parkland resident who takes classes through Florida ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

June Huh, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University who won the 2022 Fields Medal earlier this year, has been awarded a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship for “discovering underlying connections ...