Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models. Recent examples include OpenAI’s disproof of the unit distance conjecture, and ...

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A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the ...

A major and final piece of West Virginia lawmakers’ 2023 hallmark education legislation goes into effect this school year ...

Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals ...

Safari Technology Preview 248 delivers native BigInt Math as a JavaScript built-in for the first time, eliminating ...

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 ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

First-grade students (left to right) Parker Richey, Remi Kinney, and Declan Cogan work on counting skills in Sarah Jacobs' math class at Primary Village North school in Centerville in this 2024 photo.