Now, in the waning days of the Colorado Legislative Session, that proposal is being resurrected, as Denver politicians again seek to eliminate this educational resource for the rest of the state.

Goldbach’s conjecture sounds almost too simple: every even number greater than two should be the sum of two primes.

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

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Swalwell’s that ends well. Or maybe not, for California Democrats. They lost a frontrunner, and they don’t have a replacement yet. Eric Swalwell quit the race for California governor on Sunday night, ...

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GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Author C.S. Lewis explained how losing a friend also means losing what that friend brought out in you and your mutual friends ...