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Research shows many young children have fallen behind in reading and math. But some educators are worried about stigmatizing an entire generation.

Avi Wigderson and László Lovász will share the annual prize that aims to be something like the Nobel for mathematics.

You’re going to need some double-sided tape.

Sarah Hart, the first woman to hold England’s distinguished Gresham professorship of geometry, explores the intersections of music, literature and mathematics.

From studies of “geometric frustration,” scientists learn how paper folds under pressure.

Un novedoso mapamundi es más fiel a las proporciones de las regiones de la Tierra y amenaza con destronar a los mapas convencionales.

He developed tools for researchers to analyze categorical data, revolutionizing the study of poverty, income inequality and social mobility. He died of Covid-19.

His unifying disparate theoretical realms helped revolutionize our understanding of the most basic structure of the universe.

Fifty years on, the mathematician’s best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.”

Using game theory, researchers modeled two ways of prioritizing vaccinations, to see which saved more lives.