When presented with a math problem, some people start moving their hands the moment they read the problem statement, while ...
A letter I was handedA love letter?Long ago, when I had just graduated from being a novice, around the end of the first semester, a female student came to me after class and said,"Please read ...
From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...
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 ...
Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...
Mathematics has been the broccoli of school subjects for generations of Australian teenagers. Often pushed aside, dreaded, or even feared, nearly one third of students opt out of any senior math ...
A month after its Millennium Prize solution, OpenAI released findings on more than 300 problems—and tried to win back the world of math.