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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

For many of us, high-level math classes can be confusing. "I find math hard for me, which kind of makes me somewhat dislike it," said Sophia Cox, a student at Uplift Williams School in Dallas. To help ...

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“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

In today’s post, I am sharing this carefully curated list of creative and engaging math bulletin board ideas. These ideas are designed to make math concepts more accessible and enjoyable for students, ...

Einstein’s equations look like abstract math, but when the logic is followed all the way through, the results get unsettling fast. They predict effects like time slowing down, space bending, and ...

SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann. One of the biggest ...