JHU mathematician Emily Riehl explains how a surprising amount of math goes into determining who ends up in the U.S. House of ...

Discrete mathematics is more than abstract theory — it’s the backbone of computer science. From logic gates to algorithms, it builds the language computers understand. Mastering it means unlocking ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

Discrete mathematics is about precision in reasoning as much as it is about solving problems. Proof techniques like induction, contradiction, and direct reasoning are used to establish results in ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also ...

Abstract: The state and input constraints of nonlinear systems could greatly impede the realization of their optimal control when using reinforcement learning (RL)-based approaches since the commonly ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a new discrete StarFish Optimization Algorithm (D-SFOA) to solve a complex discrete Symmetric Travelling Salesman Problem (STSP). The discrete SFOA algorithm is ...

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

A Chinese research team has reportedly used artificial intelligence to crack a long-standing mathematical problem first proposed by an American scholar more than a decade ago. The conjecture, ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Pro model has apparently solved Erdős open math problem #1196. The model reportedly found the solution in about 80 minutes and prepared it as a LaTeX paper in another 30. Formal ...