A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Back in 1994, financial adviser Bill Bengen came up with a retirement principle called the 4% rule. His idea went viral. Now, Bengen's rule is getting an update. The 4% rule says you should plan to ...

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their works. Artificial intelligence, the team found, does not follow such implicit ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For ...

Victor Wembanyama has shown off many skills throughout his incredible 2025-26 season, but perhaps the two most unexpected have been his ability to debate and do math on the fly. After leading the San ...

SAN ANTONIO - In game 81 of the season, Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama still found a way to surprise the assembled press. He scored 40 points in just 26 minutes, the aesthetics of which were even ...

The San Antonio Spurs continued their strong finish with a 139-120 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night, but it was Victor Wembanyama’s postgame comments that drew attention as he weighed in ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

More than a century ago, mathematicians accepted a rule so intuitive it seemed harmless. But once formalized, it led to something deeply unsettling: a solid sphere could be split apart and reassembled ...