James is 58 years old. He's built up about $1.5 million in retirement accounts and still has a modest mortgage on his home.

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Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

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Mathematician Terence Tao used ChatGPT to help solve a math problem, finding the AI particularly helpful for generating Python code, spotting errors, and selecting parameters, saving him hours of ...

America’s students continue to struggle in mathematics. The reasons are multifarious and sometimes elusive, but our recent research suggests the difficulties may have less to do with the math itself ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

A mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an easier way to solve quadratic equations. The mathematician hopes this method will help students avoid memorizing obtuse formulas. His ...