Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

A breakthrough from an OpenAI model would have meant nothing without humans to make sense of it.

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get when you dial a basic auto-complete model up to ...

Carl Jung emphasized how irritations with others reveal our unconscious biases and self-understanding. His concept of projection highlights learning about ourselves through what bothers us in others.

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

Undoubtedly, mathematics can be complex in any of its numerous branches. Some children pick up the concepts quite quickly and go on to excel in math. However, math can be an immense struggle for those ...

First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...

An arithmetic operator is a mathematical function that takes two operands and calculates anything with them. Common arithmetic uses them, and the majority of programming languages provide a set of ...

The May 5 article, “5 Research-Backed Ways to Help Students Catch up in Math,” reminded me of my early days as a teacher and school leader. I regularly worked one-on-one with middle and high school ...