Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

The degree of a polynomial function is the highest power of the variable in its expression. The degree dictates the maximum ...

David Cook II has always loved numbers.  He remembers, from a very young age, sitting in the back seat of the family car and ...

After struggling with math early on, Abdelaziz Elherbawy hit his stride in his third year, going on to graduate with Honours in Mathematics and Economics while getting accepted into a master’s program ...

The brain’s function and integrity emerge not only from properties of individual regions, but, more fundamentally, from the intricate web of connections ...

While the nation focuses on visible technological advancements, it often overlooks the foundational importance of mathematics ...

UC Santa Barbara computer scientist Daniel Lokshtanov is advancing fundamental understanding of computational efficiency through groundbreaking research on quasi-polynomial time algorithms, supported ...

Daniel Lokshtanov’s work explores the limits of what computers can solve, paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence and computational efficiency.

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a ...