Many students see the equal sign as a signal to calculate, rather than a symbol of equivalence. Here’s how to clear up that ...

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 ...

Humanity has never been short on predictions of apocalyptic events, from plagues to asteroid impacts. Most doomsday scenarios hinge on an analysis of physical threats or indicators of societal ...

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Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump was expected to sign a “Ways and Means Bill,” focused on “protecting taxpayer rights” by requiring the IRS to “show its math when changing returns,” according to a news release ...

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 ...

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We’re seeing some new developments in AI models that are shedding light on one of the technology’s most prominent gaps – its relative inability to do math well. Some experts note that AI is ...