A shape that captured worldwide attention for solving a decades-old mathematical puzzle has returned to the spotlight. While ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

This year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics.

Hong Wang, one of this year’s winners of the Fields Medals, which honor the top mathematicians under the age of 40, once ...

Jessica Serna Castaneda leads a group of campers building a 24-cell octahedron last week at Summer Math Circle Camp at ...

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

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America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ Long-Term Trend assessment, scores haven’t ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Is America heading toward a national debt crisis? As an economic adviser to President Biden and an economist active in mainly Democratic policy circles since the late 1980s, I’ve spent most of my ...

Three mathematicians just proved a famous 30-year-old conjecture in geometry, with only a tiny assist from AI. The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of ...

Math Circles of Chicago (Chicago, IL) sparks curiosity and confidence in students by offering engaging and challenging math experiences. Through free, high-quality programs led by dedicated educators, ...