“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

“Social media and other digital media…distracts students in class when they should be learning,” San Diego State University ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

In the article “Are Students Prepared for College-Level Math? A Senator Wants to Know ” (Jan. 23, 2026), U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. raises a valid question by asking colleges whether K–12 systems ...

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 ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of ...

OpenAI has once again made a big claim in the world of AI and mathematics. The company says that one of its latest AI reasoning models has successfully solved a famous geometry problem that remained ...

A newly decoded mathematical solution devised by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman may help travellers make ...

Did our AI summary help? OpenAI has announced that one of its AI models has solved a long-standing mathematics problem first posed by mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946. The company claims the model ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault Faculty members at Harvard University voted ...