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The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

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.

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it ...

The favorable impact of the legislative reforms enacted in Florida is now benefiting consumers and making headlines. The reforms of 2022 began ...

The report used state and national assessment data for 35 million students enrolled in grades 3-8 nationwide to chart how ...

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to declining scores. Full-bore panic about fading global competitiveness. Urgent calls ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...