The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that scientists use when they try to work backward from what they can measure to ...

The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance. The new model, dubbed OpenAI o1, can solve problems that stump existing ...

Only a few months ago, the question felt mostly philosophical: if artificial intelligence can help solve open math problems, ...

Math-M-Addicts students eagerly dive into complex math problems during class. In the building of the Speyer Legacy School in New York City, a revolutionary math program is quietly producing some of ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...