Ian Stewart's Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems is an entertaining and fresh look at some of the most vexing problems facing the field of mathematics. We asked him to pick the ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a brainy battleground where the world’s most talented teenage mathematicians wrestle with devilishly difficult math problems. It’s long been considered a ...

Google adds Photomath, a popular AI math-solving tool, to its app lineup. Photomath lets users solve math problems by taking pictures of them. Google’s latest app marks another step towards AI-powered ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

OpenAI’s o3: AI Benchmark Discrepancy Reveals Gaps in Performance Claims Your email has been sent The FrontierMath benchmark from Epoch AI tests generative models on difficult math problems. Find out ...

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