Chinese mathematicians Yu Deng and Hong Wang have emerged as leading contenders for the 2026 Fields Medal, mathematics' ...

A perfect result at the world's most prestigious mathematics contest used to be the preserve of a handful of bright young ...

Wang Hong, a Chinese mathematician who solved a century-old geometry problem in 2025, has been named a Silver Professor at New York University.

Some visitors explore the exhibition Liu Hui, a leading founder of classical Chinese mathematical theories at Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris on September 24, 2024. A year-long global commemoration ...

Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...

China’s approach to teaching math and science differs sharply from that of the United States, concludes a report that details the Asian nation’s use of strong national standards, a logical progression ...

In 2015, Nature published a cover story about how the artificial intelligence firm DeepMind was training machine learning models to play old arcade games. Unlike dedicated chess supercomputers like ...

The numbers do not look good for China’s current level of mathematics research, according to a leading Chinese-American mathematician, who says the country is decades behind the United States and must ...

Teachers today face a conundrum: they lack the hours needed to help students master requisite proficiencies. This burden is amplified for those teaching language immersion classes. Some split their ...

Shing-Tung Yau, Member of the American Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign academician of the ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...