Math illuminates how traffic flows, how our cells build proteins and even how to speed up medical imaging scans. Some worry ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

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

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.

Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.

OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers have had to rethink pretty much everything they do with students—and that includes how they give math tests. With many students working remotely, ...