This is not so different from what high school students need as they chart a course to graduation; they should have a goal or ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Stripped of careful phrasing, the logic is familiar: Some students are deficient, fixing them is costly, ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

Dev Saravanan was one of 600 students to accept a diploma during Moorpark College’s graduation ceremony, yet he stood out ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

Most preteens spend their summer break thinking about everything except school, but Dev Saravanan isn't like most kids his age. He's looking ahead to the associate's degrees in physics, computer ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...

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 ...

As a mathematician—and given the recent buzz over UFO disclosures—I find myself entertained by a specific hypothetical: If a silver saucer crewed by extraterrestrials ever touched down, then what on ...

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival ...