Congratulations! High school graduation rates in your state are hitting all-time highs! But before you crack open the ...

Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, tapped two undergraduate students to verify his ...

A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical metric and curvature.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Did our AI summary help? A research-level mathematics problem that took nearly twenty years to design has been solved by an artificial intelligence system, surprising the mathematician who created it.

Polish mathematician Bartosz Naskrecki, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, is amazed as an AI program successfully solves a maths problem he has been working on for nearly 20 years in advanced ...

It's time to break out your number two pencil and mathematics skills to see if you can solve a math equation plaguing hundreds online. A simple math problem was recently shared on X by the account ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...