A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

The problem is this: use all 12 matches to form, in similar fashion, the perimeter of a polygon with an area of exactly four ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Math Puzzle: Only intelligent minds can solve this math puzzle by finding the missing value in 17 seconds. Are you one of them? Try now! A math puzzle is a type of brain teaser that tests the reader's ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an AI technique using 'mollifier layers' to solve complex inverse partial differential equations more efficiently and with greater stability.

We've all been there: staring at a math test with a problem that seems impossible to solve. What if finding the solution to a problem took almost a century? For mathematicians who dabble in Ramsey ...