For all of the recent strides we've made in the math world, we're forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper numerical knowledge. Some math problems have been challenging us for centuries—but ...

As the leading AI labs battle for math supremacy, OpenAI spent millions of dollars and cracked the Navier-Stokes problem. Rivals are already challenging AI’s biggest math breakthrough yet.

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that scientists use when they try to work backward from what they can measure to ...

This is the question (warning, trying to solve it is both difficult and addictive): Albert and Bernard just met Cheryl. “When’s your birthday?” Albert asked Cheryl. Cheryl thought a second and said, ...

The Millennium Prize breakthrough is proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress ...

But for more difficult questions, even just writing the real-world scenario as a math problem can be complicated. This process requires a lot of creativity and understanding of the problem at hand and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

In 5th grade math for students aiming for top-tier schools, how far to go with difficult problems is the order in which you ...

Every time a new model is released, benchmark score tables are lined up. But have you ever wondered, "Isn't it just that ...