Prime Minister Mark Carney’s biggest proposed public investment so far is the billions of dollars – exact price tag TBD – ...

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 ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Small businesses employ 62 million Americans and generate nearly half of US GDP. But as boomers retire by the millions — and their kids aren’t interested in taking over the family business — most face ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

As an oil operator, things change all the time. I’m often putting on those various hats multiple times a day. I’ve been an entrepreneur for over fifteen years, and in that time, I’ve worn many ...

First published in 1923, the book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre remains one of the most cited market narratives in finance. Told through the thinly-disguised figure of Larry ...

Thanks to the IRS MATH Act, the IRS must now explain mistakes in plain English, show any adjustments, and put your 60-day appeal deadline front and center. It will be a major upgrade from previously ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...