LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

When a company with tens of thousands of software engineers found that uptake of a new AI-powered tool was lagging well below 50%, they wanted to know why. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the ...

The Redmond Police Department (RPD) has implemented a new crime-solving technique leveraging artificial intelligence to solve active cases. The department is using Longeye, an AI tool, to aid in its ...