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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 ...

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 ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...

Math is everywhere. For college students, it might mean balancing a budget, making sense of financial aid forms or getting through at least a math course or two, no matter your degree program. Beyond ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been declining. A few days into the new semester this January, the ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

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