Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music. The idea that music can improve learning has been around for decades. The “Mozart Effect,” is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The idea that music can improve learning has been around for decades. The “Mozart ...

Artificial intelligence works best within companies when it knows the context in which it is operating. Some of that context is easy to codify upfront, in explicit rules and guidelines. Some of it can ...

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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ Long-Term Trend assessment, scores haven’t ...

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 ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...