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

It's too early to say if AI is frying our brains — but the research so far doesn't look good.

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Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that looks impressively official. Then you ask one to multiply two awkward ...

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Some students of Accra Senior High School (SHS) and St. Thomas Aquinas SHS have expressed concerns about the level of difficulty of this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination ...

“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 ...

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.” ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

What in the covfefe is going on? On Monday, President Donald Trump published an all-caps announcement about the Iran war to his website Truth Social that some critics had a hard time processing due to ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...