When tech founders start weighing in on school subjects, students tend to pay attention. In a recent X exchange that sparked curiosity and classroom debates, Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, shared a ...

In a recent X exchange, Telegram founder Pavel Durov urged students to study math for its logic and problem-solving power. Elon Musk replied, advocating for physics—with math. Their posts have ...

It began not with a clash, but with a quiet ripple. On an otherwise uneventful July evening, Telegram’s famously elusive founder Pavel Durov took to X and issued a piece of advice to students that was ...

A viral X thread sparked a debate between Pavel Durov and Elon Musk, igniting a discussion on whether math or physics is more crucial for aspiring entrepreneurs. Durov championed math for its ...

Nobel committees recognized the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) in two of this year’s prizes — honouring pioneers of neural networks with the physics prize, and the developers of ...

More countries are edging ahead of the United States in math and science achievement, according to the latest results from an international test of 4th and 8th graders in the subjects. The Trends in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hilbert's sixth problem was one of the loftiest. He called for "axiomatizing" physics, or ...