For decades, calculators have been our trusted companions for arithmetic, speeding up calculations but never truly understanding the underlying principles.

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

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 ...

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

OpenAI claimed in September that one of its models had solved a math problem worth one million dollars. The Sun spoke with four Cornell professors across engineering, computer science and mathematics, ...

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 ...