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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Is artificial intelligence replacing human genius in mathematics, or redefining it? From the Navier-Stokes mystery to ...

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Some math problems are designed in ways that reward simplicity rather than analytical depth. Research shows that highly ...

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Fox News anchor John Roberts asked Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick what President Donald Trump actually meant during his speech last night on the cost of living, noting that some of Trump’s ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

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 ...

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 ...