A SIMPLE primary school maths equation has baffled thousands online and left people scratching their heads in despair. At first glance it’s a straightforward numbers game – but therein lies the ...

It’s said that AI could soon be coming for the jobs of artists, lawyers, and software engineers. But it might now also be threatening a role at the height of academia – are pure mathematicians safe?

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Earlier today I posed four puzzles from the Hyde Park Math Zine, a maths fanzine from Austin, Texas. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Ring it Each region has a perimeter given by its enclosed ...

Today’s puzzles all come from … the Hyde Park Math Zine! This delightful publication is written in pen on a single folded sheet of paper, has a print run of 30 copies, and is distributed in the ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Maths is far from the favourite subject of most school students. There are those who love it and relish solving sums, but for many people, it remains a sore subject they struggle with well beyond ...