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This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

An artificial intelligence system has successfully solved a complex mathematical problem, originally designed 20 years ago to test the limits of AI capabilities.

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

Bartosz Naskrecki, a mathematician at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, had designed the complex challenge as part of the FrontierMath benchmark.

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...