A famous math problem stumped humans for 80 years. AI just cracked it.

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

Opinion: Why Students Reach College Underprepared for Math — And What to Do About It

In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, countless news articles have bemoaned a crisis in math learning. Whether ...

OpenAI’s Breakthrough On Famed Math Problem Actually Proves That Using AI To Find Counterexamples Is A Smart Strategy For Everyone

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

An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...
Forbes

AI Is Usually Bad At Math. Here’s Why It Matters

We’re seeing some new developments in AI models that are shedding light on one of the technology’s most prominent gaps – its relative inability to do math well. Some experts note that AI is ...

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

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

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

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

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font of surprising connections all over math and beyond it, to the realm of the ...