We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI.

Sian Beilock is the author of “Choke: What the Secrets Of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To.” She recently co-authored a report that suggests that when a person is anxious about ...

You've probably been asked to prove a math solution at some point, but never like this. Researchers have created the world's largest math proof while solving the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem, ...

After over three decades, five academic studies and one thousand pages, a team led by Yale Professor Sam Raskin has solved a part of what some consider math’s “Rosetta Stone.” Raskin led a nine-person ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

You think writing proofs for algebra during high school was hard? Think again. A trio of brilliant mathematicians just solved a decade-old puzzle and consequently produced the world's largest ...