It's Mathematics Awareness Month, and this year's theme is Unraveling Complex Systems. Host Scott Simon talks to Weekend Edition Math Guy Keith Devlin about how math can be a guide to understanding ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Calculus has a long-standing reputation as the pinnacle of high-school math education, and as such it is a subject that the majority of students will not learn before entering college. For many ...

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

The [Math Sorcerer] loves books. His latest acquisition is the famous Real and Complex Analysis, which is a very stout math book. How stout? Well, there are several chapters on holomorphic functions, ...

OpenAI o1 is a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding ...

Buffalo State College’s new $110 million Science and Mathematics Complex is taking shape. The new building designed by Cannon— a 224,000 sq.ft. facility over three levels– will be home to the ...