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A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

There is only one way to calculate a percentage decrease. For anything higher than a 100% decrease in price, the seller would be paying the customer to take the product. In Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...

Alex Gerko’s bold bet on AI has made his trading firm, XTX Markets, one of the most profitable players in the secretive world ...

A 48-year-old American coach who studied mathematics at Columbia and grew up watching Diego Maradona play for Napoli is now ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

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 ...

Bailey Heugly, right, records the length a ruler dropped to recreate an experiment on reaction time (how long it takes to respond to a stimulus) during a data science class at Lehi High School in ...