ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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 ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

Most executives know a bad Google result is a problem. Very few have done the math to find out how big a problem it actually ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

It’s a sunny spring morning and the Grade 9 math students at Milton District High School, in the Halton District School Board, just west of Toronto, are seated in straight rows facing the blackboard.

For many, it's been years since they've sat in a classroom while a teacher tested their arithmetic skills. Internet users are now racking their brains to remember how to solve elementary school ...