In a sport where gold and silver can be separated by a fraction of a second, many of the world’s top swimmers now scour data for even the smallest edge. Kate Douglass of the United States often wears ...

PARIS — Dr. Ken Ono shared his screen and, on a Zoom one week before the Olympics, began teaching me about Benford’s Law and plane partitions. Ono, a 56-year-old mathematics professor at the ...

For many athletes, it is the pinnacle of their career. They have trained hard for years to take part in the Olympic Games. Winning a medal is a childhood dream for most of them—only surpassed by ...