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 ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

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 ...

I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...

A hand triumphantly holds a gold medal aloft against a backdrop of clear blue sky. Image: Envato By mohdizzuanbinroslan The Gemini Deep Think AI model’s result in the International Mathematical ...

Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...

Earlier this month, as you may have heard, a U.S. team won the International Math Olympiad for the first time in 21 years. The news was exciting and unexpected and pride-inducing. Except for one ...