A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...

We know from Dyson that there are 18 digits in the solution. (We’ll come back later to the mystery of how he knew that in the first place.) Let’s represent each of these digits with the first 18 ...

Mathematicians have long pondered the reach of a grazing goat tied to a fence, only finding approximate answers until now. Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one ...

A lot of trial and error is needed, and, although there are ways to help limit the set of possibilities, there isn’t a surefire method of arriving at a solution in ...