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Jessica Wan has accumulated an estimated $90,000 in academic competition winnings throughout the years that will go toward college. The 16-year-old Parkland resident who takes classes through Florida ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: After an assault in 2002, Jason Padgett suffered a brain injury that instilled within him a perviously unknown mathematical genius. Padgett became ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four ...

I have a friend who’s a world-renowned mathematician. He doesn’t think like me. Or you. Or, indeed, anyone else I know. This is a good thing — certainly for him. Especially as mathematicians of one ...