David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time using AI to work on Erdős problems. The work itself is technical, but the lesson it ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

When students create a visual resource to scaffold problem-solving, they can approach independent work with more confidence ...

To understand why, the team looked at the MRI scans.

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

AI stuns researchers by solving a 20-year-old mathematical challenge with near-human reasoning, marking a breakthrough in artificial intelligence and raising new questions about the future of human ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...