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Vietnam returns to Asia Pacific Mathematics Olympiad after 25-year absence with gold medal

Vietnam secured 7th place among 45 countries and territories at the 38th Asia Pacific Mathematics Olympiad (APMO) 2026, earning one gold, two silver and four bronze medals and three certificates of merit.

12yo boy earns Johns Hopkins honor with near-perfect SAT math score through self-study

Relying entirely on self-study, a 12-year-old boy in the United Arab Emirates has captured an elite global mathematics honor from Johns Hopkins University after scoring a 750 out of 800 on the SAT math section.

Meet the Tulane math department chair who joins Fields Medalist Ngo Bao Chau to mentor Vietnam's PhDs

Ha Huy Tai, chair of Tulane University's mathematics department, will spend two to three months a year in Hanoi for three years co-supervising Vietnamese doctoral candidates.

Vietnam's top math institute warns of 'intellectual decline' as students offload homework to AI

Vietnam's top mathematics institute warned that students leaning too heavily on AI to solve problems risk an "intellectual decline," with both researchers and officials raising alarm about how much of the work of…

Vietnamese IMO gold medalist tackles mathematics problem unsolved for half century

Le Quang Dung, a gold medalist at the 2017 International Mathematical Olympiad, has co-authored the first paper in a series of studies tackling a major unsolved problem in Bayesian nonparametrics that has remained…

Cambridge cancels math exam results in Vietnam after 'unprecedented' global leak

The results of an international AS Level Mathematics exam have been canceled in multiple countries including Vietnam, after what organizers described as an unprecedented paper leak, forcing candidates to retake the test.

How a Vietnamese village schoolboy ends up working with Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau at China's Tsinghua

Dang Quang Tuan once expected to teach math at a Vietnamese high school. Instead, the 31-year-old is now a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University, working in differential geometry under Shing-Tung Yau, the first…

Vietnamese students publish research in world's top mathematics journal

Two students from Ton Duc Thang University and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education recently published a paper in a prestigious, century-old Q1 mathematics journal.

Chinese math prodigy Wang Hong, 2026 Fields Medal frontrunner, sweeps two top prizes in one week

Wang Hong, a 35-year-old Chinese mathematician at New York University, has taken two of mathematics' most prestigious prizes in the space of four days, sealing her status as a frontrunner for the 2026 Fields Medal.

French mathematician Frank Merle wins $3M prize dubbed 'Oscars of Science'

By proving that systems long believed to be stable can still "blow up" to infinity, Professor Frank Merle has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, along with a US$3 million cash award.