After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

The widespread idea that getting students to practice basic maths skills until they master them amounts to ‘drill and kill’ ...

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it ...

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

Quantum computing’s edge looked closer after a hard physics problem seemed beyond classical machines. But a new result shows ...

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 open Erdős problems and proved 44 OEIS conjectures using AI-driven formal ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Focusing on these behaviors gives a much clearer picture of a child's actual math skills and their confidence in using them.

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Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

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 ...