Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese ...

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields ...

Quantum Hermite transform is a new quantum algorithm that could improve AI, simulations, and future quantum computing ...

Explore the potential of quantum computing and the challenges ahead as researchers strive to overcome noise and errors.

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the classroom and academics to the gym, the river, the studio, and even the ...

The MIT Sports Lab helped develop a tool referees used to make clutch calls at the last World Cup, but their ongoing work with FIFA is just one of many collaborations with heavy hitters in sports.

MIT students and casino mathematics come together in a story about strategy, probability, and card-counting style thinking. The title points to a group of students using math to gain an edge at ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts See more of ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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