Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate their own. In the procedure, she randomly separates students into groups of ...

Overview: Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math.High scores on known Datasets do not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block ...

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages ...