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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 ...

“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 ...

How to never get a piecewise problem wrong again In this video, we provide essential "math help" by demonstrating how to "graph a function" that is defined piecewise. This "math tutorial" focuses on ...

👉 Learn how to write the piecewise function given the graph. A piecewise function is a function having different rules/equations for different intervals. When interpreting the graph of a piecewise ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him hanging ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) used an artificial intelligence system called Packing Star to solve a 300-year-old maths problem ...

Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension with complex math concepts, making them a common hurdle for students. The good ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...