Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the past week. “The science is thrilling,” the Cornell ...

OpenAI said Tuesday that it has solved one of math’s most difficult problems, marking a seminal moment for the company. But the news has been plagued by controversy over how OpenAI reached its ...

This is a story about keeping the faith in a discipline not exactly known for its religiosity: mathematics. The field of arithmetic statistics — the study of statistical patterns in arithmetic objects ...

Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, ...

Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our newest feature here. For the second time ever, someone has solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems—math’s ...

Students in Singapore and parts of China had the highest scores on the test known as PISA. Scores for American students were near a 25-year low. By Sarah Mervosh The reading scores of American 15-year ...

How does one talk about the advert without talking about the advert? In this attention economy, outrage is its own kind of currency. Is there any point in trying to be oblique about it all when ...

OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

California high school students are scoring more straight A’s than ever – but it’s not necessarily because they’re getting smarter, according to data and education experts. The number of college ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. On the morning of Tuesday, ...

The new ID documentary, “O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil,” pulls the curtain back on Simpson’s shocking hidden camera prank show, one of the most controversial reality TV projects of all time ACES / ...