Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Mathematical programming with vanishing constraints (MPVC) represents a challenging class of optimisation problems where certain constraints become inactive—or “vanish”—depending on specific ...

Join the Heriot-Watt Programming Competition, organised by the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, and put your ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is probably the most prestigious competition for preuniversity students. Every year students from around the world compete for its coveted bronze, silver ...

OpenAI Group PBC today launched GPT-5.2, its newest and most capable large language model. The LLM is available in three versions: Instant, Thinking and Pro. OpenAI says that the latter two editions ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong. But researchers are building new A.I. systems that can verify their own math — and maybe more. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco On a recent afternoon, ...

Explore zero-one integer programming, a key method in logical problem-solving, using binary choices for optimal decisions in finance, production, and more.

OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco An artificial intelligence system built by Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary ...