A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample ...

Typst is an easy and powerful markup-based language for creating technical documentation and books – and a compelling ...

Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models. Recent examples include OpenAI’s disproof of the unit distance conjecture, and ...

Congress granted funds to restore this critical service months ago. But it may not be back until the end of 2026.

A major and final piece of West Virginia lawmakers’ 2023 hallmark education legislation goes into effect this school year ...

Safari Technology Preview 248 delivers native BigInt Math as a JavaScript built-in for the first time, eliminating ...

OpenAI just used its new large language model GPT-5.6 Sol to solve a math problem that humans have struggled with for more than a half-century. And all it took was telling the artificial intelligence ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...