The quest to approximate irrational numbers with fractions reveals hidden patterns, surprising hierarchies and enduring mathematical mysteries ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

When students prove they're ready for advanced math, schools should enroll them automatically. New NAEP data shows how many ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Stripped of careful phrasing, the logic is familiar: Some students are deficient, fixing them is costly, ...

👉To solve a system of equations means to obtain a common x-value and a common y-value that makes each of the equation in the system true. To solve a system of equations by graphing means to obtain ...