Why should we care that AI is suddenly insanely good at math? It’s a question that I’ve been asking mathematicians and AI researchers for months, and especially this week, when OpenAI published a ...

Challenging math can teach children to persist, adapt, and think through difficulty. But the most valuable part of a difficult math problem may not be the final answer. It may be what children learn ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that scientists use when they try to work backward from what they can measure to ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. OpenAI said its agents solved the Navier-Stokes equation—a 200-year-old mathematical formula ...