They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

When faced with something new, human beings instinctively reach for comparisons. A child learning about atoms might hear that electrons orbit the nucleus “like planets orbit the sun.” An entrepreneur ...

For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathemat ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve solving problems by making a ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Mathematical superintelligence startup Harmonic AI Inc. revealed today that NVentures, the venture capital arm of Nvidia Corp., was among the investors in its $120 million Series C round that was ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

GPT-5.2 Pro delivers a Lean-verified proof of Erdős Problem 397, marking a shift from pattern-matching AI to autonomous ...