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 it matters.

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OpenAI said one of its internal models had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul ...

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Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...