Staring at a page of derivatives or integrals can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Your professor moves fast, the ...

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence more adaptable than ever before, but that comes with a drawback: lies. Generative AI tends to make things up, but ...

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 ...

Teaching children to use spatial reasoning cues could help them understand how numbers relate to one another, a fundamental concept in early math education. Two Lynch School researchers are exploring ...

As a student, AI has been most helpful for me in my study sessions. Before everyone comes at me, I don’t mean using AI to cheat my way through exams or have it solve entire assignments for me. Instead ...

This math equation is sparking a debate on Facebook. With two possible answers, no one can decide which answer is correct. Do you have what it takes to find them both? Do you feel pretty confident in ...

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...