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An artificial intelligence tool that hunts for unintuitive mathematical patterns appears able to tackle a wide range of maths problems, including some that haven’t seen progress for decades. AI models ...

Google DeepMind announced on 21 July that its software had cracked a set of maths problems at the level of the world’s top secondary-school students, achieving a gold-medal score on questions from the ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...