Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

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A prime illustration of what pupils describe as "impossible" comes from Edexcel's June 2022 Paper 1: Non-Calculator. The geometry challenge requires students to calculate the area of two shaded ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...