The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

A growing consortium of University of California professors is urging the state university system to bring back standardized testing, warning that the elimination of admissions tests has degraded ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

Abstract: Subset selection, a fundamental problem in various domains, is to choose a subset of elements from a large candidate set under a given objective or multiple objectives. Pareto optimization ...

There is a pressing need for Mathematics Education Researchers to develop tools and frameworks for scientific communication around theories, to further theory-driven research practices and offer new ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse ...

For centuries, the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" has dominated discussions of aesthetics. This adage suggests that beauty is entirely subjective—what one person finds attractive, ...

Part of the joy of watching Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” is getting to witness Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) as she comes to realize her true purpose: doing everything in her (magical) power to free the animals of ...