Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

Three economists grabbed a beer. A multibillion-dollar industry was born. The billion-dollar prediction markets industry began like a joke: Three economists walked into a bar.

Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math. High scores on known Datasets do not always mean real understanding. Small changes in numbers can break Language Models ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

GSM8K-V is a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark that systematically maps each GSM8K math word problem into its visual counterpart to enable a clean, within-item comparison ...

At Izetta Sparks Elementary, mornings are for math. "Mrs. Newcomb went to the candy store and bought 43 bags of sour gummy worms..." said Alyssa Newcomb while standing at the smart board, introducing ...

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The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

The smartest AI models ever made just went to the most prestigious competition for young mathematicians and managed to achieve the kind of breakthrough that once seemed miraculous. They still got beat ...