Many people have likely found themselves watching oddly satisfying videos of random objects being squashed by a powerful ...

A few years ago, ChatGPT couldn’t do simple arithmetic. Now, some experts say that AI could make mathematicians obsolete.

A recipient of his profession’s prestigious Fields Medal, he devised an algorithm that helps solve mathematical ...

As the National Museum of Mathematics sought new space in Manhattan, the right things add up for a corner spot in Chelsea: space and visibility.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet it has fascinated mathematicians for more than 140 years. To ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...