Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Andrew W. Shlomchik ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall. Never before has it been so easy to cheat on problem sets — so why are we still grading them? While cheating on problem ...

Policymakers, business leaders and medical societies are all busy counting metrics like insurance subsidies, premiums and enrollment numbers. These details matter but they miss the larger issue: ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

A troubling math problem that led to a "heated conversation" among one fifth-grader's family has sparked similar debate on social media. Math differs from other subjects in that the answers students ...

Years usually separate an author’s first keystroke from his book’s first sale. Kudos, then, to the authors of “King Dollar” and “Our Dollar, Your Problem” on their improbably excellent timing. They’ve ...

In the early 1900s, Britain was taking stock in the aftermath of the Boer Wars. It was one of the most formidable empires on Earth, yet somehow its soldiers had stumbled in battle, and nobody could ...

A 14-year-old math prodigy from India, Aaryan Shukla, broke six Guinness World Records in 24 hours with his lightning-fast mental calculations. Known as a human calculator, Aaryan uses daily practice ...

A viral math puzzle is presented in the image shared above. The challenge here is to find the value of 3. Can you solve this math puzzle in 6 seconds? If you can, you have a sharp mind and a high IQ.