ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

AI is now helping produce research-level mathematics, but experts say verifying proofs not generating them is becoming the ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

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 ...

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A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University (CYU) and University of Burgundy (uB), have analyzed drawings made by children and adults when solving ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

Exploring concepts such as observation and measurement in the fresh air can give students a new and playful perspective on ...

A good grasp of math has been linked to greater success in employment and better health. But a large proportion of us—up to 22%—have mathematical learning difficulties. What's more, around 6% of ...

Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified. Visualizing these representations would enable us to better understand ...