What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya ...

But he won’t be winning any awards—he died more than 1,000 years ago in the Maya empire that once flourished in Mesoamerica.

Just a few years after literacy laws swept the nation, changes to math education are gaining traction. In Wisconsin, a new ...

AI coding agents ported Fields Medalist Terence Tao’s Java 1.0 math visualizations to JavaScript in hours, identified two ...

On the heels of a “Back to Basics” reading effort, New York is launching a similar initiative for math.

At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...

The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

University of California professors are sounding the alarm on a “severe” lack of math skills among college students — thanks to a decision to ban standardized testing in admissions at the elite ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

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 ...