In at least two cases, the AI tool was “able to construct an original and valid proof” to unsolved conjectures.

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After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

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The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Ten years after the "Mississippi Miracle," some senators say it's time for the legislature to focus on progress in elementary math classes.

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...