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Math classrooms shifted over time to the discovery model. Not suddenly, and not without good intentions. There was a ...

Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

Abstract: Cosmologists often build a mathematics simulation model to study the observed universe. However, running a high-fidelity simulation is time consuming and thus can inconvenience the analysis.

Almost a century ago, a mathematician came up with a puzzle that was so seemingly simple and yet so fiendishly difficult that it has been distracting other mathematicians ever since. It has become a ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Problem-solving skills are essential in the age of artificial intelligence. Don’t Take Math Education For Granted As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, let’s not take for granted our ...

Liam Price has no formal training in mathematics and has yet to attend university, but last month, he managed to break new ground in mathematical research — with the help of ChatGPT. Posting on the ...