China entered its first team into the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious math competition for pre-university students, in 1985. Four years later ...

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 been mired by ...

HONG KONG — A teenager in China performed so well in a math contest, she defeated artificial intelligence — as well as students from prestigious universities including MIT, Stanford and Princeton.