Top artificial intelligence systems now ace many textbook-style math questions, yet they still fall apart on genuinely new ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered, “Is the SAT hard?” Well, you’re not alone. Nearly 1.7 million high school students take the SAT each year. The SAT is a timed test with strict structure, challenging math ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

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 ...