You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Talia Lakritz Every time Talia publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox!

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved one of the hardest math problems—one that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three ...

The New York State Education Department released a sampling of questions from statewide math and reading tests this week, showing the kind of problems elementary- and middle-school students have to ...

Renowned for setting final questions so difficult even top mathematicians have to pause for thought, this year the script has flipped on the HSC’s most challenging exam. While peers in the standard ...