A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

You might be staring at your budget, wondering how you’re supposed to cover rent, debt, and everything else on $20–$25 an ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

WASHINGTON — DC Public Schools' math programs got a great addition to their budget on Thursday when an anonymous donor gave them $20 million. The donation to the DC Public Education Fund will go ...

President Linda Mills formally announced the creation of NYU’s Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science, a school aimed at building on NYU’s efforts to prepare students for ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...