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 ...

A general-purpose reasoning model, not a math-trained system, produced a new family of point configurations that broke Paul ...

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 ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao, who reviewed the result, said that ChatGPT used a completely different method to solve the problem. It used a formula that was well known, but which no one had thought ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...