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Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

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OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game ...

At three public schools in Mesquite, some kids are making money for doing math. Each time they complete 30 addition problems correctly within 60 seconds, for example, they get a badge that earns them ...

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In early April, NASA and its Artemis II mission inspired humanity to look toward the heavens. Now that the four-person space crew has returned home, however, the public still hasn't had its fill of ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...