Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a ...

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Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

In this math tutorial I am going to work through three rational trigonometric expressions to show you how to simplify them ...

A 23-year-old has apparently found the solution to a famous difficult math conjecture called an Erdős problems by prompting ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.

For Wiles’s proof, you have to leave the algebra you know from school and enter more branched mathematical areas. In fact, ...

Terence Tao has been exploring the intersection between maths and AI. Credit: David Esquivel/UCLA. Is mathematics being taken ...

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

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. More than 8000 students abandoned advanced mathematics in last year’s Higher School Certificate, ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...