Index funds have basically become the default recommendation for retirement investing, and for good reason. Low fees, broad ...

Roth accounts have become something close to financial gospel. Fund the Roth. Do the conversion. Pay the tax now so that you never pay it again. It’s good advice often enough that it’s easy to stop ...

Between ages 62 and 73, most retirees pass through an unusually low-tax stretch of life that they will never see again. Wages ...

The Bogleheads forum is full of posts that read the same way: a 56-year-old executive, $1.8 million in a traditional 401(k), ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...