ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

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At a time when Wisconsin is struggling to help students learn the basics, DPI is asking the public to embrace new ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

As bad as things are, they’re going to get a lot worse in 2030, thanks in part to the Supreme Court’s Callais decision.

Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...

New Jersey's schools face ballooning health care benefit costs. Can they survive a crisis? We will soon find out.

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...