During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math if a bill currently going through the state ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Mistral AI has released Leanstral 1.5 as a free Apache-2.0 model for Lean 4 verification. Lean 4 is a proof-assistant and programming environment for machine-checkable proofs, and proof engineering ...

Artificial intelligence was beaten by humans in solving 10 complicated mathematical problems within the “First Proof” project. The project was ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

The Department of Mathematical Sciences invites applications for a two or three-year Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow beginning August 2026. This twelve-month appointment has a teaching responsibility of ...

Abstract: Possessing a manipulable representation of the world is a requirement for intelligent machines to plan, reason, and act in the world. Endowing computational systems, e.g., deep networks (DNs ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced that its internal AI model had disproven a long-held prediction regarding the 'unit distance problem,' a central unsolved problem in discrete geometry. The unit ...