The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

It’s not often a math paper goes viral, but a new preprint from a theoretical physicist at Poland’s Jagiellonian University ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

EL PAÍS reconstructs what many media outlets sold as ‘the news story of the year,’ and some of its protagonists described as ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...

More than 450 students from across New Jersey gathered on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 17, for the 2025 Stevens Mathematical Olympiad — an annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s keep things simple – this is basic math. Nothing scary. Just everyday calculations, a bit of geometry, some number patterns, and the kind of stuff you definitely learned in school at some point.