Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

Probability theory and the Saint Petersburg paradox can help you determine whether the stakes of a game are too great ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

Famous game show puzzle: The Monty Hall problem from 'Let’s Make a Deal' challenges players to decide whether to stick or switch after one losing option is revealed. Probability says switch: ...

JHU mathematician Emily Riehl explains how a surprising amount of math goes into determining who ends up in the U.S. House of ...

Watching modern college basketball often feels like watching a math equation instead of an actual sport. This breakdown ...

Time describes how the U.S. math curriculum still follows a framework from the 1890s, emphasizing manual skills in algebra, geometry, and calculus. This focus on rote problem-solving neglects critical ...

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to ...

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Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...