Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines a famous math riddle involving a confusingly lost dollar.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

AlphaProof Nexus combines LLM-driven proof generation with machine verification to crack open math research problems that have stumped mathematicians for decades. Google Deepmind's new framework ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Tamil Nadu has 234 assembly seats. Halfway to a majority is 118. Vijay C Joseph's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) won 108, per the Election Commission of India's results data. That ten-seat gap is the ...

Green Valley’s newest art space is preparing to open to the public with a outdoor market featuring creative activities and artwork for sale. SPARK! is expected to return on the first Sunday of every ...

“Subtraction!” most of the 3rd graders responded in chorus when asked what operation they needed to use to solve a problem. I noted that 100% of students were engaged and I gave the teacher an ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The Collatz Conjecture is defined by a rule simple enough for a child to follow. No matter what number you start with, the process always appears to end the same way — and it has never been observed ...

California Democrats have a math problem: They’ve added so many candidates in the race to succeed Gavin Newsom that two Republicans could end up winning the state’s quirky “jungle primary,” shutting ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

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 ...