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. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but more than a third report having ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Mathematicians have long relied on a theorem that appears undeniably true, yet every attempt to formally prove it collapses. The contradiction has puzzled researchers for decades, raising questions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abstract dreamscape 3D landscape background in purple colors A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally ...

An associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has publicly called former President Donald Trump a racist and co-authored an academic paper suggesting the American education system, and even ...

In September, McKellar joined an episode of the podcast “Hey Dude… The 90s Called!” When asked about the mathematical physics theorem she co-authored, she sheepishly said, “I mean, it’s only famous ...

The way thin crystal films grow is crucial to advancing nanoscale and quantum technologies. Carnegie Mellon University’s Indulekha Madathil Sasi models that growth through mathematics. “I find beauty ...

LLMs have shown notable improvements in mathematical reasoning by extending through natural language, resulting in performance gains on benchmarks such as MATH and AIME. However, reinforcement ...