This month, 146 teams from all over the world gathered to compete at the annual Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT). The teams were each composed of six high school students and many traveled from as ...

Continuing to show he is one of the more unusual — and impressive — players in the NFL, Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel announced via Twitter that he received a 4.0 GPA in his first ...

Jessica Wan has accumulated an estimated $90,000 in academic competition winnings throughout the years that will go toward college. The 16-year-old Parkland resident who takes classes through Florida ...

Marisa Gaetz looks for truths when she conducts her research. Her research doesn't require special equipment or a lab, and that's one reason the St. Joseph native likes mathematics. "You can do it ...

Combinatorics is a fancy word for counting. Doing really big problems by the partial products method gets really cumbersome and no one actually does it. Don’t try to do this chapter if you don’t have ...

One recent afternoon in Cambridge, Mass., John Urschel and I strolled along the Charles River on the way to his office at MIT, where he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. We were passing some of the ...