OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro has solved multiple decades-old Erdős math problems, but Fields Medalist Terence Tao says the wins ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

New research shows that advances in technology could help make future supercomputers far more energy efficient. Neuromorphic computers are modeled after the structure of the human brain, and researche ...

An unexpected mentor happened to referee a high school soccer match she played in – and she spoke with him afterwards to dispute a goal-canceling call he’d made against her. Their talk about angles ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” This is a quote often attributed to William Stein, a former mathematics professor at the University of Washington, now the lead ...

For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...