In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

MPAX is a hardware-accelerated, differentiable, batchable, and distributable solver for mathematical programming in JAX, designed to integrate with modern computational and deep learning workflows: ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

When you’re hauling a couch through a narrow hallway and yelling “Pivot!” like Ross from Friends, you’re unwittingly grappling with a half-century-old mathematical conundrum. Known as the Moving Sofa ...

More than 450 students from across New Jersey gathered on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 17, for the 2025 Stevens Mathematical Olympiad — an annual ...

We consider the optimal scheduling of hydropower plants in a hydrothermal interconnected system. This problem, of outmost importance for large-scale power systems with a high proportion of hydraulic ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the Flexible Layout Design Problem (FLDP), which involves a set of stations arranged in a matrix-structured manufacturing system (MMS). Initially, the main objectives ...