A teenager has just done what dozens of seasoned mathematicians could not: they toppled a conjecture that quietly steered harmonic analysis and ...

Sample question on the math section of the 2022 PISA exam. This one is rated a level 2, a level of difficulty that 34 percent of U.S. 15-year-olds could not answer correctly. (Answer revealed at the ...

“The view … that math is a bunch of symbolic expressions, and you bang on them with tricks to get other symbolic expressions, is a bankrupt concept of math, dating from the 19th century.” ...

Teens surprise math world with Pythagorean Theorem trigonometry proof | 60 Minutes This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024.