How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Exhibit A: Student affairs practitioners (who are typically overworked and underappreciated) know the reasons that students are dropping out – whether it’s not having $500 to pay off a balance, coming ...

This peace lily, or variegated Spathiphyllum, was overwatered and is almost a goner. Contributed Pamela Corle-Bennett This peace lily, or variegated Spathiphyllum, was overwatered and is almost a ...

The root of the problem, root it out, rootin’ tootin’, root beer, square root, and money is the root of all evil are just a few common phrases we use that contain the word root. Well, let’s get to the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A chatbot solution Recently, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced that its internal AI model had made progress on a closely related version of this problem, which suggests that Erdős may have ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...