For years, some of the world’s top mathematicians believed this prime number problem was basically impossible to break. Then an unknown mathematician named Yitang Zhang, who had once worked odd jobs ...

University of California professors are sounding the alarm on a “severe” lack of math skills among college students — thanks to a decision to ban standardized testing in admissions at the elite ...

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...

California’s Math Scores Are Abysmal. Is It Time to Screen Kindergartners for Basic Math Skills? Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on ...

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In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...