The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

Math illuminates how traffic flows, how our cells build proteins and even how to speed up medical imaging scans. Some worry ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...

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

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

From writing essays to coding, there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...