IFLScience

Decades-Old, Infinitely Large Math Problem Gets Surprisingly Neat Solution

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Texas Monthly

Is There a Better Solution to Our Public Schools’ Math Problem?

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Math Class Doesn’t Work. Here’s the Solution

Math anxiety is a rampant problem across the country. Researchers now know that when people with math anxiety encounter ...
The Next Web

DeepMind’s AI finds new solution to decades-old math puzzle — outsmarting humans

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...
Boston College

Searching for solutions to America’s math problem

Teaching children to use spatial reasoning cues could help them understand how numbers relate to one another, a fundamental concept in early math education. Two Lynch School researchers are exploring ...
Gizmodo

Computers are providing solutions to math problems that we can’t check

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages ...