Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

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GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

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People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

Math is hard. For many students, keeping up with a classroom that moves too fast — or too slow — is exhausting. Traditional ...

How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now–but it hasn’t, as ...

A research team based in China says its artificial intelligence system has done something no AI has publicly done before: ...

It’s not often a math paper goes viral, but a new preprint from a theoretical physicist at Poland’s Jagiellonian University ...