Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1993, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th ...

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Two New Orleans-based teenagers have cracked the code of an impossible math problem that hasn’t been discovered for nearly 2,000 years, according to a presentation they gave at a recent mathematics ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A mathematician may have just proved the impossible possible. For 30 years, mathematicians wondered if ...