Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used worldwide to create written content, source information ...

This study introduces MathEval, a comprehensive benchmarking framework designed to systematically evaluate the mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Addressing key ...

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released a mathematical reasoning model that can identify and correct its own errors. The model beat the best human score in one of the world’s ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Ribbit Capital Leads Round at $1.45B Valuation of Math-Based AI Venture; Emerson Collective Joins Existing Backers Including Sequoia & Kleiner Perkins PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harmonic, the ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Future lawyers often consider this question: Which test will open more doors: the LSAT or the GRE? Law school admissions are more competitive than ever. Recent 2025 data show that law school ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...