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

Nidhi Sachdeva is a researcher and lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. In December, Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office released its latest student-testing ...

A deceptively simple math problem has left the internet stumped, proving it may be far trickier than it appears at first glance. The mathematical brain teaser, posted Friday by X user @BholanathDutta, ...

MATH’S Week returns this week, marking its 20th anniversary. It is estimated by the end of this year’s festival of sums, five million people will have taken part in that time. Minister for Education, ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Is an artificial intelligence revolution about to transform mathematics? Some prominent mathematicians think so, thanks to automated tools that can help write proofs suddenly showing impressive leaps ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

Google's second generation of its AI mathematics system combines a language model with a symbolic engine to solve complex geometry problems better than International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...