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A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working ...

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

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Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

GPT-5.2 Pro delivers a Lean-verified proof of Erdős Problem 397, marking a shift from pattern-matching AI to autonomous ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

A body has been pulled out of a Houston river that internet sleuths keep linking to a serial killer, marking the first such ...

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #4 focuses on making math instruction more relevant to students. The real question students are asking is, “When am I ever going ...

The major scientific breakthroughs and astronomical events have been seen this week with the remarkable development of a new kind of quantum processor that lasts 15 times longer than those used by ...