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Mackey Magic, fearless freshmen and old-school math: Inside how No. 13 Purdue upset No. 2 Alabama
Purdue flexed its muscles as a national contender with a monster win over Alabama at Mackey Arena on FridaySports - CBS Sports - 5 days ago -
AI’s math problem: FrontierMath benchmark shows how far technology still has to go
FrontierMath, a new benchmark from Epoch AI, challenges advanced AI systems with complex math problems, revealing how far AI still has to go before achieving true human-level reasoning.Tech - VentureBeat - November 11 -
How a Chinese maths 'prodigy' unravelled in cheating storm
A 17-year-old student was hailed as a genius, until it emerged she'd cheated.Top stories - BBC News - November 7 -
Student who wowed China in Alibaba math contest got help from teacher, organizers say
Organizers of a Chinese math competition say a vocational school student who finished near the top in the first round was helped by her teacher in violation of the rulesWorld - ABC News - November 5 -
The Gazan teenagers defying war for competitive maths
Palestinian youngsters study on phones for Maths Olympiad and dream of attending MIT amid the ruins of shattered enclaveWorld - Financial Times - November 2 -
Teens who made history with math discovery publish paper with new proofs
Students who made math history when they were in high school have now published new ways of proving the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry.Top stories - CBS News - October 29 -
Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math
A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.World - The New York Times - October 25 -
Sometimes, It’s Not You, or the Math
In this 2011 essay, a 39-year-old woman who hasn’t had a boyfriend in eight years is asked by a date, “What’s wrong with you?”Lifestyle - The New York Times - October 25