In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.

AI solved a math problem that stumped experts for 80 years, revealing deeper lessons about human cognition, focus, and ...

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

A new mathematical framework, built on a branch of number theory called adelic analysis, has produced a complete proof of the ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

An asteroid or a nuclear war can end the world. Mathematical musings from one’s armchair cannot. Birth rank seems to have no ...

Math equations used to be a daily chore for many elementary schoolers. But entering adulthood means those less mathematically inclined often never have to think about them ever again. And it appears ...

What's next? Will machines now compete for Nobel Prizes? And why the world needs to pay attention before it gets left out in the cold.