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 ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Mathematicians love the certainty of proofs. This is how they verify that their intuition matches observable truth. This logical love of proofs is uniquely suited to opening up the black box of ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Everywhere Steven Strogatz goes in the city, he sees math. By Tammy La Gorce Steven Strogatz, a math professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has temporarily moved to the city to serve as a ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Most leading mathematicians show early talent, but 2022 Fields Medalist June Huh developed his passion much later, once ...