In new research, mathematicians have narrowed down one of the biggest outstanding problems in math. Huge breakthroughs in math and science are usually the work of many people over many years. Seven ...

A new preprint math paper is lighting up the airwaves as mathematicians tune in for a possible breakthrough in a very old, very sticky problem in number theory. Riemann’s hypothesis—concerning the ...

At a secret meeting in 2025, some of the world's leading mathematicians gathered to test OpenAI's newest large language model, o4-mini. Experts at the meeting were amazed by how much the model's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Google DeepMind have trained a new type of AI system capable of solving complex math problems from this year’s ...

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, ...

Researchers have launched MathNet, the largest-ever open database of International Mathematical Olympiad problems, compiling over 30,000 questions from 47 countries. The dataset offers standardized ...