The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a brainy battleground where the world’s most talented teenage mathematicians wrestle with devilishly difficult math problems. It’s long been considered a ...

The Miami Heat will spend the next few days in Boston trying to figure out a math problem. That math problem was a big problem for the Heat in Game 1 against the Boston Celtics, as the top-seeded ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that scientists use when they try to work backward from what they can measure to ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...