The Latest Breaking News from Mathematics

French Minister of Education Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures on Tuesday to address the decline in academic performance following the 2022 Pisa study, which highlighted a "historic" decrease in French students' proficiency in mathematics.

Though we stand well above the OECD average, we must double our efforts towards providing more equitable education in the future

There will be a collective gasp as governments and policymakers reckon with drops in 15 year olds’ math skills in the wake of the pandemic, as captured by the OECD’s release of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 results.

SCOTLAND has seen declines in performance across reading, science, and mathematics in line with global trends, according to the latest international…

Educational research group says rise is more to do with other countries’ performances dropping

With the recent sacking and swift rehiring of Sam Altman by OpenAI, debates around the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) are once again in the spotlight. What’s more unusual is that a prominent theme in media reporting has been the ability of AI systems to do maths.

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion…

Musk's "rebellious" AI bot is obnoxious and snarky, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Mathematics has long been the backbone of innovation, driving technological, engineering, and economic advancements. Yet, across the United States, a persistent struggle with math literacy remains. “Mathematics is a powerful tool that transforms lives, unlocking opportunities in every field imaginable,” says Edward Ochieng Oyugi, a distinguished mathematics educator from Kenya.

Succeeding in love and business, roulette or a pub quiz is easy, says mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. You just have to know the right formula

How researchers conceptualize a disease informs how they treat it. Cancer is often described as uncontrollable cell growth triggered by genetic damage. But cancer can also be seen from angles that emphasize mathematics, evolutionary game theory and physics, among others.