Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

College admissions officers, especially at selective institutions, have a persistent preference for calculus as a ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

In an extraordinary achievement that has stunned the global mathematics community, two high school students from Louisiana have developed a novel way to prove the Pythagorean theorem—and their ...

That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

No one likes doing chores, but they don’t magically go away by ignoring them. If you don’t mow your lawn, the grass doesn’t stop growing. It becomes jungle-like; a much bigger headache if ...

The formula underpinning President Donald Trump’s new wave of “Liberation Day” tariffs triggered widespread bafflement Thursday, with one CNBC commentator saying it looks like it’s based ...

See an example of the kind of research the school is working on in this film I have weekly meetings with my supervisor, not just discussing the research but also how I'm feeling mentally and what I am ...

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...