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

Math classrooms shifted over time to the discovery model. Not suddenly, and not without good intentions. There was a ...

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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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 ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

PCWorld explains how vague prompts produce poor results from AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, emphasizing the need for specific, detailed requests. The article introduces prompt decomposition, a ...

When a kindergartner is asked to solve the equation 7 + 6, the numbers alone don’t always make clear what they’re being asked to do: determine what number is six numbers greater than seven. To figure ...

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It likely won’t be hard to remember the new phone number for a cancer support line: CSC-867-5309. The seven digits, made famous by the 1981 Tommy Tutone hit, “867-5309/Jenny,” now directs callers to ...

A category-by-category look at odds on favorites, per a mathematical formula that factors in awards season data and historical trends. By Ben Zauzmer Ben Zauzmer is a contributing writer for The ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...