A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

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The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

Federal testing data released Wednesday shows that students are struggling, and experts said that means they may not be able ...

Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who knows me well: I love reading books about mathematicians. Not because I understand the dense mathematics. I struggled through four semesters ...

There are 61 candidates for governor on this week’s primary election ballot, one of whom will be inaugurated in January.

OpenAI's AI model solved the unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdos in 1946 The AI found a counterexample disproving Erdos's conjecture on unit-distance pairs The solution shows unit-distance pairs ...

AI math proof verification reached a new frontier as DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős research problems with Lean-verified proofs, some unsolved for 56 years. The May 2026 Science Ne ...