While the rest of the world was watching the World Cup on Sunday evening, mathematician Levent Alpöge casually announced on X ...

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 ...

Some, however, find that bridging fields opens new realms of possibility. Henry Kvinge, who trained as a mathematician but ...

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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 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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Easy access to AI-powered answers during important math assessments is creating significant learning loss, according to a new study that reviewed millions of student engagements across more than a ...

Math teacher Al Rabanera has a new tool in his decades-long quest to ensure his students, most of whom come from low-income families and marginalized backgrounds, see themselves in the curriculum.