The “book of nature,” Galileo wrote in 1623, “is written in the language of mathematics.” Simply put, to understand the universe, to understand nature, you have to understand math. The same, it turns ...

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Nigeria’s brightest young mathematics talents took centre stage at the 2026 Verboheit Mathematics Award Competition as students from across the ...

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 ...

News that large language models (LLM) have made major advances in solving Erdős problems – a set of problems formulated by the renowned 20 th-century mathematician Paul Erdős – has created an ...

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 ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

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By listening to recordings of students solving math problems, teachers can determine their next steps, such as how to pair ...

With a few instructional shifts, teachers can create classrooms that better encourage confidence and academic growth.