Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

A round robin bet is a way to place multiple parlays at once from a single set of picks. Instead of combining all your selections into one all-or-nothing parlay ticket, a round robin automatically ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Rory McIlroy will wake up in the lead on Sunday at the Masters, but he won’t be there alone. Opening Saturday’s play with a historic six-shot lead, the defending champion struggled with accuracy in ...

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 ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

If math was never your strongest subject, take a number. But veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered math is hidden in an ancient game. In 20 years as a 4th grade teacher, she observed that math ...

June 11, 2026 - As a California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt now offers new degrees and career possibilities for graduates and aims to attract more students. Math is the sum of its parts, ...