When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up. Fad diets come and ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

The Federal Government’s proposal to replace the current administrative separation between Junior and Senior Secondary Schools with an uninterrupted 12-year basic education system has sparked fresh ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Sima Abacus Mental Maths Academy, Mr Donald Anthony, has urged the Federal Ministry of Education to introduce Abacus education into Nigeria’s school curriculum, saying ...

Six years after dropping the SAT and ACT, the University of California is weighing a return to standardized testing following ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...