Hong Kong (CNN) — A fashion major from a vocational high school in rural China has amazed the nation by outshining elite students in a global math contest – but the teenager’s underdog story has now ...

Former Chinese mathematics prodigy Liu Zhiyu says he has no regrets about walking away from the field, even after his former Olympiad roommate and rival Deng Yu went on to win the Fields Medal. Deng ...

Deng Leyan scored a perfect 42 at the International Mathematical Olympiad for the second year running when the 67th edition closed in his home city of Shanghai this week. Seven of the 666 contestants ...

A perfect result at the world's most prestigious mathematics contest used to be the preserve of a handful of bright young minds each year, but for the first time, artificial intelligence has also ...