What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya ...

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

AI coding agents ported Fields Medalist Terence Tao’s Java 1.0 math visualizations to JavaScript in hours, identified two ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...

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 ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

Among the titles in today’s Record Store Day 2025 exclusives announcement is a brand new Wu-Tang album, which the hip hop legends made with their longtime collaborator, DJ and producer, Mathematics.