Policymakers, business leaders and medical societies are all busy counting metrics like insurance subsidies, premiums and enrollment numbers. These details matter but they miss the larger issue: ...

Henry F. Haidar ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is an Applied Math concentrator in Lowell House. Last week, Harvard sent undergraduates an email ominously titled “An Update on Grading.” Walking into ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google’s AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. On Wednesday at 5 p.m. PT, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of ...

A nearly year-old Facebook event for a "simple maths competition" has been one of the most viral posts on the platform for six months. The "event" racked up about 51 million views on Facebook during ...

AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months – ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust, but ...

Years usually separate an author’s first keystroke from his book’s first sale. Kudos, then, to the authors of “King Dollar” and “Our Dollar, Your Problem” on their improbably excellent timing. They’ve ...

In the early 1900s, Britain was taking stock in the aftermath of the Boer Wars. It was one of the most formidable empires on Earth, yet somehow its soldiers had stumbled in battle, and nobody could ...