A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

Get out your timer and number two pencil to see if your arithmetic skills from grade school are still intact.

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

It’s said that AI could soon be coming for the jobs of artists, lawyers, and software engineers. But it might now also be threatening a role at the height of academia – are pure mathematicians safe?

As the CBSE board has begun with the second board exams starting from today. CBSE Class 10th Maths Exam is scheduled for 15 May, 2026. The exam will be conducted from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. There will ...

Maximum registrations for CBSE 10th Mathematics standard and basic were recorded. Some students found the February exam tough basic paper seen as more difficult. 6.6 lakh students registered for the ...

For most people, the image of runners circling a track may suggest competition, but for Tanupat Trakulthongchai, a second-year mathematics undergraduate at St John’s College at Oxford University, it ...

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The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...