It’s difficult to find a set of academic programs that aren’t being scaled back, or at least whose administrators aren’t scrambling to reduce costs, in this economy. It appears that programs serving ...

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer’s U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad—the first for an American team in more than two ...

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A number of schools specialising in maths are to be set up in England as part of a £600m drive to improve education. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce the plan in his autumn statement ...

Research uses artificial intelligence to map connections between the world's top mathematicians. Math's top prize, the Fields Medal, has succeeded in making mathematics more inclusive but still ...

A Sheffield student has beaten the odds to win a place at the University of Cambridge - after smashing his A-levels and passing one of the most demanding maths exams in the country. Sam Freeman, ...

Math's top prize, the Fields Medal, has succeeded in making mathematics more inclusive, but still rewards elitism, according to a Dartmouth study. Published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences ...