Bitcoin miners are quietly doing the math and defecting. The power, the cooling, the fiber, the substations. All the stuff that took a decade to build for hashing SHA-256 turns out to be exactly what ...

In education, few issues have stirred more debate in recent years than when middle and high schoolers should take algebra.

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the ...

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.

It started almost by accident. At my startup Dwelly, I constantly push the limits of what AI tools can actually do. One day I just typed into a chat: “Can you prove P ≠ NP?”—referring to the problem ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

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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 ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Earlier in my career, I consistently assigned what many of us think of as traditional math homework: a worksheet with 20 similar problems or a textbook page full of several repetitive problems. This ...