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Three Chinese women mathematicians win 2026 "Oscars of Science" prizes
13+ hour, 19+ min ago (576+ words) The Breakthrough Prize honors leading scientists worldwide, with each prize valued at US$3 million across life sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics. At the April 18 ceremony, Wang Hong and Tang Yunqing received the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, while Zhang Mingjia…...
MIT releases world's largest free math Olympiad library with 30, 000 problems from 47 countries, territories
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (428+ words) The database, Math Net, aims at students training for elite math competitions who have historically had to prepare on their own. It was built by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) together with Saudi Arabia's King…...
Chinese math prodigy Wang Hong, 2026 Fields Medal frontrunner, sweeps two top prizes in one week
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (468+ words) The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced on April 18 that Wang had won its 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, a US$100, 000 award given each year to outstanding early-career researchers. The prize, widely known as the "Oscars of Science," was presented at a…...
Why Terence Tao is seen as one of the world's greatest living mathematicians
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (1045+ words) The 51-year-old Australian-American mathematician earned the nickname "Mozart of math" for displaying extraordinary talent at a very early age, as well as for his gentle personal style. "Terry is like Mozart; mathematics just flows out of him," UCLA professor John…...
Chinese AI autonomously solves decade-old math problem in hours
1+ week, 5+ day ago (215+ words) Led by professor Dong Bin, the researchers developed a dual-agent framework, consisting of an informal reasoning agent called Rethlas and a formal verification agent named Archon, to handle advanced mathematical problems, as reported by the South China Morning Post. The…...
Meet renowned US-based statistics and computer science expert who joins Fields Medalist Ngo Bao Chau to mentor Vietnamese math talents
1+ week, 6+ day ago (562+ words) The initiative, unveiled last month by Ngo Bao Chau, a Fields Medal laureate and scientific director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, aims to develop world-class researchers domestically, reducing the need for talent to pursue advanced training…...
Vietnamese mathematician who left Yale for Hong Kong says most students study math just to get through it
1+ week, 6+ day ago (454+ words) Professor Van, who joined the University of Hong Kong's Department of Mathematics this year after a long tenure at Yale and continues to lead Vietnam's Vingroup Innovation Foundation (Vin IF), made the remarks on April 13 at a seminar on teaching…...
How China's Yitang Zhang rose from sandwich shop worker to math star
2+ week, 3+ day ago (811+ words) In April 2013, editors at Annals of Mathematics, one of the world's most prestigious mathematics journals, received a paper titled "Bounded Gaps Between Primes" from a little known mathematician, then an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire in the…...
Data scientist ranks among top 10 best jobs in US with $115, 000 median salary
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (251+ words) The role placed 10th on Indeed's 2026 "Best Jobs" list, which evaluates occupations based on salary, demand, wage growth, job postings and flexibility, including remote work opportunities. On Indeed, data scientist positions accounted for 958 job postings per one million, up 15% from 2022. Around…...
Meet 6 math prodigies who are top candidates for 2026 Fields Medal
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (777+ words) Wang, 35, is an associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in the U. S. Born in 1991 Guangxi, China, Wang was regarded as a prodigy after entering Peking University at the age of 16. She later earned a…...