For those who number ourselves among the algebraically impaired, higher math is like outer space—a forbidding frontier; a sphere of unknowns, peril and, as has been proved often enough ...

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A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint ...

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A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the organizers of a large mathematics conference in Marseille, France, announced a last-minute addition to the program. During ...

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