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Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Upcoming BL drama “Love Class 3” has announced its premiere date with new posters! The third installment of the BL campus romance series “Love Class,” “Love Class 3″ tells the story of Hyun Jae ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Dozens of schools have exceeded class size limits — more, by far, than any other Tampa Bay district. Nakylah Carter is a data reporter covering education. Reach her at ncarter@tampabay.com. Anyone can ...