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 ...
In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, countless news articles have bemoaned a crisis in math learning. Whether ...
OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...
AI solved a math problem that stumped experts for 80 years, revealing deeper lessons about human cognition, focus, and ...
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 ...
P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...
With AI’s ability to solve complex math problems in a matter of seconds, it may feel to teachers like the technology is rapidly changing—or will soon—how math is taught. When free and widely available ...
This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...