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.

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

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

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

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.

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...

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 ...