Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Starting last fall, the Rancho Santa Fe School District offered its middle school students a new honors and accelerated math pathway, providing more rigor to the academic program to give ...