Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University tackled the problem in a recent study by working backward from an existing polyhedral torus to answer questions about what would be needed to ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

As the U.S. looks toward the 2018 midterm elections, it's worth noting that hundreds of scientists and other STEM professionals have decided to run for office. As someone with a math background, I ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What does math look like to mathematicians? It’s very simple ...

We can’t all be amazing at math, which is why the 10 best mathematicians in the world today are so impressive. I’m a pretty right-brained person; therefore, math is not my forte. I took the AP A/B ...

It’s “a definitive study for all time, like writing the final book,” says one researcher who’s mapping out new classes of geometric structures. It’s human nature to want to classify things, to argue ...

Mathematicians have partnered with artificial intelligence to suggest and prove new mathematical theorems. For the first time, mathematicians have partnered with artificial intelligence to suggest and ...