To be honest, mathematical theorems themselves are too difficult for me to really understand. However, I have always found ...

AI agents began providing "answers" to unsolved mathematical problems. At the beginning of the year, it was only a matter of Erdős problems being solved one by one, but by autumn, the claims had exten ...

Actually, no. Neuroscience shows you tend to be at your most creative when you’re not trying to be creative. Actually, you’re at your most creative when you’re not trying to do anything at all.

For the three-year period ended 2025, the portion of families behind on loan payments soared from about 12% in the prior survey to nearly 20%, according to a Fed survey released Friday. That was the ...

The President tells supporters at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas to "pretend" he's on the ballot in November. On that point he agrees with Democrats, who are also campaigning as if he's on the ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...

Read about how mathematicians are dealing with the AI takeover of their field in our newest feature here. For the second time ever, someone has solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems—math’s ...

Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, ...

Two human mathematicians have made, with a “great deal of help” from artificial intelligence, three important steps towards solving one of the world’s most famous outstanding mathematical problems.

President Donald Trump appears preoccupied with slapping his name on things these days. And on Thursday, that involved slapping it atop a ranking of presidents. Trump shared an image on social media ...

Latin squares are arrangements of symbols in a grid in which every symbol appears exactly once in each row and column. These symbol arrangements, which were first studied more than three centuries ago ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 ...