In 2024, an AI entered the fray of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Google’s AlphaProof is part of the same ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

The one source of truth is mathematics. Every statement is a pure logical deduction from foundational axioms, resulting in absolute certainty. Since Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem, you’d be ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

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One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...