One of the most bitterly contested proofs in modern mathematics may be on the verge of being untangled. Two projects, both aiming to use a computer program to cast new light on the controversy, are ...

Harvard faculty are weighing an amendment to a proposed cap on undergraduate As that would substantially reduce the number of ...

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding.

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

As LLM calculation skills advance, theoretical fields of science are reckoning with the possibility that they could be ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed ...

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from ...