In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. OpenAI said its agents solved the Navier-Stokes equation—a 200-year-old mathematical formula ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Elementary teachers can foster the critical thinking skills that help students develop independence in working through math ...

This is where all the math that has been and is still being invented comes into play. Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. OpenAI's Astra model has reportedly solved ten complex, decades-old mathematical problems ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...