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Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

A recent announcement that an artificial intelligence model succeeded in solving a decades-old mathematical problem that had eluded generations of accomplished mathematicians was widely portrayed as ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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The evidence has been well established that many undergraduate students have been getting better grades than they deserve in recent years. But less researched is the issue of grade inflation at the ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Pro has solved an open mathematical problem that human researchers could not crack since 2019, according to independent verification by Epoch AI. Contributed by mathematicians Will ...

While grades keep going up, up, up in high schools and colleges, other measures of achievement are not. Teachers and faculty face pressure to keep students and families happy—and some research says ...

Production has begun on the second season of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, and is eyeing a return for later this year. According to What Next? (Next on Netflix), Season 2 will be returning to our screens ...