You were smarter than AI at math only a few years ago. Yes, even you.

A few short years ago, asking AI to add two four-digit numbers together for a third-grade math assignment would have been a ...

Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real world.

Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, ...

When OpenAI cracked one of math’s six unsolved “million-dollar” problems, the academic world was stunned. The 90-year-old question, part of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s famous Millennium Prize ...

We’re seeing some new developments in AI models that are shedding light on one of the technology’s most prominent gaps – its relative inability to do math well. Some experts note that AI is ...

Scientists at Maynooth University in Ireland have created a kind of computer that uses DNA molecules to solve math problems.

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...