You're at dinner, the bill arrives, and someone inevitably says: "so what do we each owe?" Cue the awkward phone shuffling — someone opens the calculator, someone else does it on the notes app, your ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

AI plays a supportive educational role for nearly 70 percent of top-performing math students asked about their study habits, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by Philadelphia-based ...

Problem-solving skills are essential in the age of artificial intelligence. Don’t Take Math Education For Granted As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, let’s not take for granted our ...

Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a theorem by the logician Kurt Gödel.

The researchers were not involved in the initial math calculations but stepped in afterward to review the software's workings and help rewrite the findings. Instead of trying to arrange dots on a flat ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

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They’re all part of what is generally considered algebra 2, one of the courses Arizona high schoolers are required to take and pass. More to the point, they are all things a majority of ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. By Claire Cain Miller Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh Something troubling is happening in U.S.