Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

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Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews WSJ Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg News If nobody understands a mathematical proof ...

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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 ...

Cincinnati Public Schools is facing a difficult financial moment. The district is working to close a $58 million budget gap, and district leaders have warned that balancing next year’s budget could ...

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Hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty signed an open letter Tuesday demanding a return to mandatory mathematical standardized testing in college admissions. The letter, now signed by over ...

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 ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...