OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...
Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...
The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...
Math illuminates how traffic flows, how our cells build proteins and even how to speed up medical imaging scans. Some worry ...
Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...
The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...