The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.
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 ...
A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...
In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...
Combinatorics and discrete mathematics constitute the study of finite or countable structures and the algorithms that govern them. At its heart is enumeration: the art of counting arrangements, ...