Easy access to AI answer bots is killing learning. That’s one of the conclusions in a new and troubling study about AI use ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

In this video, we provide essential "math help" by explaining how to "solve" a "system of equations" using the "substitution ...

In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The students in this rural Kansas high school already solved for that meeting point ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century, writing nearly 1,500 papers while living out of a ...

Every day, millions of people open Wordle and stare at five empty boxes, hoping the right first guess will unlock the puzzle.

Every morning, Wordle asks millions of players to make a small leap into the lexical dark: five blank squares, six chances, ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

AI as we know it has been used for everything from making full-length feature films to solving nearly impossible math problems. But today AI is also, relatively speaking, just a child. That said, AI ...