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 ...

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

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the study by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko doesn’t predict population ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Pop quiz: what sounds scarier, a pandemic that kills millions or a mathematical equation? According to a new study, it might be the math. Researchers have created a model suggesting global population ...