On the way to a conference dinner in Bengaluru in 2014, Neena Gupta, then a postdoctoral student, was discussing a fundamental problem in algebraic geometry with a field expert, another student, and ...

A Polish mathematician who once described artificial intelligence as “a very advanced calculator” has been left stunned after an AI model managed to solve a research-level mathematics problem he spent ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

In 2002, an unknown mathematician quietly posted a paper online that stunned the academic world. It solved a problem that had defeated the greatest minds for over a century. A $1 million prize and the ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. 9-1-1 just delivered two strong ...

Eureka! McConnell Science Museum announced this month the launching of fuTÚros, a bilingual leadership and career exploration program specifically designed for high school students aged 14-18. The ...

He solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics — a million-dollar challenge that had defeated everyone for decades. Then, without taking the prize, the fame, or the spotlight… he vanished. This ...

Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, three years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. Only 53 per cent of ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

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 ...