A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

Some people are naturally drawn to solving puzzles and math problems. To them, the challenge is fun, not frustrating. In our world of growing demand for jobs in the areas of science, technology, ...

Around 100 fourth- and fifth-graders from Humble Independent School District packed the district’s Instructional Support Center building to compete for the title of Math Olympiad. For the third year, ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

When La Jolla High student Sarah Herrmann was in China this summer for a math competition, she not only won a medal. She also heard languages like Russian and China that she couldn’t understand. But ...