The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

When the roads get crowded, many drivers start changing lanes. Mathematics suggests this intuition is typically wrong ...

As AI climbs on the shoulders of many mathematicians before it, humans are also able to reach further due to advances by AI.

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I will never forget this one day when Kevin was a preschooler. We had an IEP meeting, and one of his proposed math IEP goals was to be able to visualize and identify what 2 of something looks like or ...

I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who knows me well: I love reading books about mathematicians. Not because I understand the dense mathematics. I struggled through four semesters ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recently heralded victory by ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

Under Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics have rightfully earned a reputation for their volume three-point shooting. It has become a polarizing topic around the league, with some trying to claim Boston was ...

You know how it feels after a Maths exam—you’re happy it’s over, but then the doubts start creeping in. Most students say, “It wasn’t hard, but it was tricky.” And that’s the catch. In Maths, you ...

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 ...