Every December 8 for years, Julia Robinson blew out the candles on her birthday cake and made the same wish: that someday she would know the answer to Hilbert’s 10th problem. Though she worked on the ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

With a new method, ten researchers are putting the mathematical "creativity" of large language models to the test. The ...