Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews WSJ Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg News If nobody understands a mathematical proof ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Abstract: Modern machine learning (ML) and deep neural networks (DNNs) often operate on high-dimensional data and rely on overparameterized models, where classical low-dimensional intuitions break ...

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 ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...

In December 2025, a group of researchers from around the world, including UC Berkeley math professor Nikhil Srivastava, gathered inside the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.