At 13 years old, O’Dorney won the 80th Scripps National Spelling Bee and shook hands with then-President George W. Bush in the Oval Office. In 2011, O’Dorney met then-President Barack Obama, this time ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

When Hannah Cairo started showing up at Berkeley Math Circle meetings as a teenager, nobody was betting she would topple a four-decade-old problem in harmonic analysis before she finished high school.

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...

During the COVID years, my wife and I realised that our son was not a typical student of Mathematics. Numbers, symbols, and their relationships had always fascinated him. He would spend hours learning ...

An airplane, traveling with a constant engine speed, makes a large and perfect circle parallel to the ground. There is no wind. Will it complete the same circle in greater, less or the same time if ...

Simple patterns can be found almost everywhere in the environment, from drain covers to leaves and road markings, say Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson Patterns are essential to building ...

Anyone can earn a PhD if they complete their degree and postgraduate studies, pass difficult entrance exams, and qualify at the top. However, a young woman who studied at home rather than attending ...

Are you ready for this math riddle test? Okay, in today’s math riddle, a series of circle-based numbers is given, which is used as logical arithmetical reasoning to test your mental ability. So, can ...

Hannah Cairo found herself stuck on a problem that wouldn’t leave her mind. It wasn’t a regular homework assignment—it was a decades-old mathematical puzzle believed to be true by leading experts in ...