From haikus to math journals and comic strips, there are major benefits when writing is infused into the math curriculum.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field. If you buy something from a ...

OpenAI’s Astra has achieved a significant milestone by solving ten previously unsolved problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. This achievement highlights Astra’s advanced reasoning ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer ...

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

👉 Learn how to find the complement and the supplement of a given angle. Two angles are said to be complementary if they add up to 90 degrees (pi/2 in radians) and are said to be supplementary if they ...