A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM supercomputer famously beat the then world chess ...

Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...

OpenAI has become embroiled in controversy over exaggerated claims about its large language model (LLM), GPT-5. The company promoted the AI as having solved decades-old mathematical problems, but it ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.

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A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math’s most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...