The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

DMT. When the high priest of psychedelics Terence McKenna first took DMT in the 1960s, he noted that his understanding of the ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...