AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the "unit distance conjecture" had just been ...

A perfect result at a top mathematics contest used to be the preserve of a handful of bright young minds each year, but for the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) has also scored full marks.Two ...

An 87-year-old mathematical puzzle was solved using AI, surprising experts and marking the most complex problem yet tackled ...

Artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery, but it isn't as simple as submitting a single query to an AI model. Research led by a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University's ...

Claude Fable 5 reportedly disproved the Jacobian Conjecture with a one-line counterexample, signaling AI’s growing math role.

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 ...

The act of turning a situation into a mathematical representation is called modeling. Translating real situations into mathematical terms If you ever solved an arithmetic problem about the speed of ...

A perfect result at the world's most prestigious mathematics contest used to be the preserve of a handful of bright young ...

OpenAI says an AI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture, raising new questions about AI’s role in research.

Mathematical modelling in education systems refers to the structured process by which learners translate real-world phenomena into mathematical representations, analyse these models and interpret ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...