Students yearn for a stress reliever during finals week as they struggle to stay awake for countless nights, memorizing historical dates and mathematical equations. Read more...

When he was 2, he would watch his grandmother draw numbers with detergent while she was polishing the windows. At the age of 13, he was enrolled as an undergraduate student at Flinders University, Australia, penciling mathematical computations. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Professor Terence Tao runs a popular mathematics blog titled “What’s New” that serves as an interactive learning space for more than 40,000 readers worldwide. An academic paper based entirely on six months’ worth of collaborative research through the site is now ready to be submitted.