During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

The transcript explores Goldbach’s conjecture, the simple-looking claim that every even number greater than 2 can be written ...

Google and OpenAI have solved decades-old problems — but the scientific community is beginning to discuss whether limits should be placed on the technology ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines why the Collatz Conjecture is still a complex mathematical mystery. Trump warns Republicans after Supreme Court mail-in ballot smackdown Coffee linked to significant ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after ...

An OpenAI model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture, and Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine more open problems days later. Together, these AI math breakthroughs mark a ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

A dude named Lenin assures us that his five year plan will be completed in 4 years and that progress is inevitable. Just tell me how many hundreds of thousands you ...