All over social media, people are claiming that 2026 is the new 2016. You cannot go online without an influencer or brand bringing back photos from 2016 and reminiscing about these times. This is ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

Two weeks into 2026, the internet decided the past was a safer neighborhood than the present. The phrase “2026 is the new 2016” started spreading across TikTok and Instagram, with oversaturated ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

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Amid the return-to-office push in corporate America, young workers are romanticizing their commutes. Commuters who participated in the TikTok trend said it helps boost their morale. Licensed therapist ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...