Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

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 ...

A simple math problem sparked heated debate on Chinese education forums two years ago. A man gives his son six yuan to buy bread. The boy spends four yuan. How much change does the seller return? The ...

Solving our national math problem demands a new formula written for the age of AI. This past school year, Cambridge, ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

AI’s achievements in math are starting to add up quickly ...

Claude Fable 5 reportedly disproved the Jacobian Conjecture with a one-line counterexample, signaling AI’s growing math role.

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...