I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person). Still, I like to think I have a solid grip on basic math: I can usually gauge whether a ...

How many presents were gifted cumulatively during the Twelve Days of Christmas song? You can write down the words, or you can try to keep count. Or you can simply apply an algorithm, rooted in ...

An artificial intelligence tool that hunts for unintuitive mathematical patterns appears able to tackle a wide range of maths problems, including some that haven’t seen progress for decades. AI models ...