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 ...

I believe we’re focused on the wrong end of the college education pipeline. Instead of asking if students can meet rigid college requirements, we should ask if our K–12 systems are designed for how ...

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Since at least seventh grade, 2026 Central High School graduate Zeke Simpson has known he wanted to study math, and even at ...

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

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

By listening to recordings of students solving math problems, teachers can determine their next steps, such as how to pair ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...