The Jacobian conjecture is a long-standing open problem in algebraic geometry that's bedeviled highly accomplished ...

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi ...

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 ...

When students look for keywords, they may fail to read the whole problem. Teachers can use these three strategies to help ...

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Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved ...

Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do you need to allow the animal access to ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

Some, however, find that bridging fields opens new realms of possibility. Henry Kvinge, who trained as a mathematician but ...

This book has two separate objectives. The first is to examine in what ways mathematics can be said to be applicable in the natural sciences or, if you prefer, to the empirical world. Mathematics is ...