For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

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When Jason bent down to help his daughter search for a missing library book, he expected to find old toys, forgotten socks, ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

The University of California system abandoned its standardized testing requirement. It’s facing an existential crisis in the ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

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 ...