Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...

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 ...

OpenAI’s Astra generates machine‑checkable proofs for ten decades‑old math problems, showing how verified AI can cut discovery costs to about two thousand dollars.

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

A Chinese doctor has unexpectedly solved a major mathematics problem dating to 2004 with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol while trying to ...

Nvidia researchers found a simple linear math technique that swaps AI models mid-task up to 25x faster than recomputing from ...

Mathematical models help find real solutions After writing a mathematical problem to represent a situation, the second step in the modeling process is to solve the problem. For Sudoku, we need to ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Neurosurgery researcher Jin Shanmu has very little formal education in mathematics but solved a major problem in linear ...