In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday (September 1, 2025) launched a Vedic clock and its mobile application, aimed at integrating the Hindu panchang (religious calendar) and traditional ...

Lucknow: In a significant move aligning with National Education Policy 2020, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University has announced introduction of a diverse range of subjects as minor and elective ...

Sydney — Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, but the programs reached gold-level scores for the first time, and the rate at which ...

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Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

The theory of gravity was mentioned in the Vedic texts long before Isaac Newton gave it in 1687, Rajasthan Governor Haribhau Bagde claimed on Wednesday. Speaking at a convocation ceremony at Jaipur ...

OK, Ari, what is 567 times 123? And you have exactly three seconds to answer, so you better move fast. SHAPIRO: You can't be serious right now, Juana. SUMMERS: (Laughter). SHAPIRO: There's no way ...

A few days back, I was at a convention of schoolteachers of mathematics. One of the keynote addresses was delivered by a college professor on Vedic Mathematics and why it must be brought to use in a ...