There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet it has fascinated mathematicians for more than 140 years. To ...

A 3D random walk can get very complicated very quickly, as shown in this simulation. Image credit: Tsvi Tlusty (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea) and Jean-Pierre ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of ...

Alabama was the only state to earn a "Strong" rating its math education in a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality released Tuesday. The state, which has historically leaned red, ...

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Recent advancements in LLMs such as OpenAI-o1, DeepSeek-R1, and Kimi-1.5 have significantly improved their performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks. Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable ...

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