Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

A math problem has left the internet stumped and social media users scrambling from their nearest protractor to figure it out. Students, teachers and social media are baffled by a tricky math question ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

OpenAI’s Astra generates machine‑checkable proofs for ten decades‑old math problems, showing how verified AI can cut discovery costs to about two thousand dollars.

In 1976, Appel and Haken proved the Four Color Theorem by reducing it to thousands of cases and checking them mechanically.

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