Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a ...
Liam Price, a 23-year-old without an advanced math degree, used GPT-5.4 to generate a solution to a long-standing Erdős conjecture. UCLA's Terence Tao noted that the AI avoided the 'standard sequence ...
Dang Quang Tuan once expected to teach math at a Vietnamese high school. Instead, the 31-year-old is now a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University, working in differential geometry under ...

America’s Math Crisis

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.
Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...
The new version of the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments — known as the NJSLA — is debuting during a month-long testing ...
One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...
Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...
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