Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines the complex mathematics involved in the infinite rubber rope puzzle.

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines the complex nature of infinite series and their mathematical ends.

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

A longtime Fordham University dean and math professor was announced as the Jesuit Catholic university's 23rd president. She ...

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

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

State and national test scores have shown proficiency rates in math are consistently below those in English language arts.

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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.