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

For nearly 300 years, mathematicians have been trying to prove a statement so simple that even a child can understand it. Known as Goldbach’s conjecture, it claims that every even number can be ...

You would be amazed to know that the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of ...

If you listen long enough to modern American politics, you might think our biggest problem is that the “other side” has too much power. But talk to enough Americans, and a different picture emerges: ...

When models cannot get the simple stuff right, that’s a cause for serious concern. I have been thinking about a question that ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly ...

A long-standing mathematical puzzle linked to the work of Paul Erdős has reportedly been solved with the help of ChatGPT, ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

We all know the scene: the pencil pauses, the brow furrows, and a deep sigh escapes. Watching a student wrestle with a challenging math problem feels, to any caring adult, like an emergency. Our ...

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also ...

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...