Artificial intelligence has formally verified the prizewinning proof that solved the sphere packing problem in eight ...

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof system solved International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver-medal level earlier this year, marking the most concrete demonstration yet that artificial ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

When two mathematicians raised pointed questions about a classic proof that no one really understood, they ignited a years-long debate about how much could be trusted in a new kind of geometry. In the ...

Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...