Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you ...

Puzzles are a hands-on way to explore simpler and complex mathematical relationships, for everyone from kids to calculus students.

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 ...

Nous Research's open-source Nomos 1 AI model scored 87/120 on the notoriously difficult Putnam math competition, ranking ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says—resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing that the present is not changed by a time-traveling qubit. It’s still not very ...

Super Bowl week is back, which means Roman numerals are once again at the forefront of the public consciousness. As one of the only institutions that still uses Roman numerals, the NFL's choice brings ...

In football terms, an Octopus refers to when a player scores a touchdown, then follows it up by scoring a two-point ...

Mississippi cruised into the College Football Playoff quarterfinals with a defeat of Tulane that sets up a rematch with ...

The producer dreamed up TaTa Taktumi and brought her to life with help from the software Suno. She’s arriving at a fraught ...