Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

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From high school math modeling challenges to formal theorem-proving competitions, large language models (LLMs) are stepping into the competitive math arena. New datasets, benchmarks, and governance ...

Aletheia, a mathematical artificial intelligence (AI) agent from Google DeepMind developed and verified with the participation of Korean mathematicians, has presented solutions to 13 world-renowned ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages ...

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