ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

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

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 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Chemistry, mathematics and physics are central to our understanding of nature. Physics explores the fundamental laws of mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and relativity. Chemistry studies ...

Description: 👉 Learn how to solve literal equations involving formulas. A literal equation is an equation where the unknown values are represented by variables. To solve a literal equation means to ...

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 ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

The ancestor of modern calculators, the Abacus (Latin for “board“) was a grooved board with movable counting labels made up of bones or stones. It reportedly dates back to 3000 BC in ancient Babylon ...

Cross-check answers using reverse calculations. Use approximation to quickly estimate answers in MCQs. Memorise square roots, cube roots, and multiplication tables for quicker calculations. Example: ...

On October 16 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin's Royal Canal. He was so excited he took out his penknife and carved his discovery ...