There is a pattern emerging from recent work in pure mathematics that deserves more attention from financial technologists ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the fascinating mathematical structures found within Pascal's triangle and probability.

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try ...

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 ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

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 ...

I have been thinking about a question that nobody in enterprise software seems to want to sit with: why can the most advanced AI models in the world solve Olympiad-level mathematics but fail to ...

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Hamilton County has seen eight fire-related deaths in the first two months of 2026, nearing its annual average. Despite the surge in fatalities, the number of fire calls in Cincinnati has not ...

In the dusty, book-filled tumult of the Jaipur Literature Festival, where the air thrums with the rhythms of poetry and politics, one might not expect to find a mathematician holding court. But there ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...