Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

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At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...

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 ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

AI becomes valuable when someone elaborates upon a specific process, runs the numbers and decides whether to build or move on ...

Mathematicians are setting some boundaries. Today, 16 mathematicians in consultation with peers and relevant organizations published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New ...

While nearly every industry is racing to integrate artificial intelligence, most schools are still teaching high school math the way it’s been done for decades–rooted in instructional material that is ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work—especially in technical and knowledge-intensive fields—by automating routine tasks and increasing the value of quantitative reasoning and systems ...