An exclusive conversation with OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, about his firm's new grand challenge and the future of AI.

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

A 17-year-old student recently amazed millions of people worldwide by ranking 12th in the preliminary round of a global math competition, despite being up against formidable rivals from top ...

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

We're all bound to have moments when we feel like we have absolutely no intelligence compared to others, especially when the ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid acceleration of its ability to solve some of arithmetic’s most challenging ...

Robert Schneider, in his book-and-curio-stacked Fisher Hall office, found his way to Tech in 2022 in part thanks to a spring break ice storm that trapped him and wife Marci in the Keweenaw after his ...

A Macon middle school identified among Georgia’s lowest-performing campuses posted one of the largest math gains in the state during the 2024-2025 school year, according to State Superintendent ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Denver — The evidence is clear: Exercise has mental health benefits, although studies have come to different conclusions about how large it might be. And yet, when February rolls around again, the ...

Unruly Republic: With artificial intelligence disaster looming, we’re told to empower experts, raise taxes! Could we be heading into another version of climate alarmism? Photo: Noah Berger/AP/Vincent ...