A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

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GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #4 focuses on making math instruction more relevant to students. The real question students are asking is, “When am I ever going ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

A research team based in China says its artificial intelligence system has done something no AI has publicly done before: independently solved an open problem in pure mathematics that had stumped ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

Chinese AI cracks decade-old math problem without human oversight - Breakthrough provides example of how mathematical research can be automated ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...