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A future 'Hari Seldon' takes notes:
Mathematicians Unveil a Smarter Way to Predict the Future
https://scitechdaily.com/mathematicians-unveil-a-smarter-way-to-predict-the-future/

„Turtles“ in VR angespielt: Nostalgischer Ritt auf der Lizenzwelle
„Empire City“ ist das erste VR-Spiel rund um die „Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles“ und erscheint 2026 für Meta Quest 3, SteamVR und Pico-Headsets.

MatheMagic: Generating Dynamic Mathematics Benchmarks Robust to Memorization
Dayy\'an O'Brien, Barry Haddow, Emily Allaway, Pinzhen Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05962

MatheMagic: Generating Dynamic Mathematics Benchmarks Robust to Memorization
Conducting contamination-free evaluation of mathematical capabilities can be difficult for two reasons: models may memorize a test set once it is made public, and current mathematical benchmarks are prone to overfitting due to having limited diversity of symbols and rules, coupled with closed-ended answers. This paper proposes a method to leverage these shortcomings as useful features to a construct dynamic, counterfactual benchmark, which can be used to both reveal overfitting and measure true…

Investigating Students' Preferences for AI Roles in Mathematical Modelling: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Wangda Zhu, Guang Chen, Yumeng Zhu, Lei Cai, Xiangen Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06617

Investigating Students' Preferences for AI Roles in Mathematical Modelling: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Mathematical modelling (MM) is a key competency for solving complex real-world problems, yet many students struggle with abstraction, representation, and iterative reasoning. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been proposed as a support for higher-order thinking, but its role in MM education is still underexplored. This study examines the relationships among students' design thinking (DT), computational thinking (CT), and mathematical modelling self-efficacy (MMSE), and investigates their prefere…

New shape🚨! "Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ "| Scientific American (h/t Amanda Montañez on bsky)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-make…

Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’
The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture

Was dieser Fall zeigt: dass Mathematiker*innen im Team besser (bzw. schneller) sind, und dass KI-Bots auf präzisen Fragestellungen vernünftige und hilfreiche Antworten geben können, was man erkennt, wenn man sie überprüfen kann.
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Der weltbeste Mathematiker fragte für ein ungelöstes Problem erfolgreich ChatGPT
Mithilfe präziser Fragen an die KI konnte Tao eine Hypothese aus der Zahlentheorie bestätigen. Auch Mathematik-Begeisterte auf Onlineplattformen halfen mit

Ethical and sustainable mathematics is localised: why global paradigms fail and culturally-situated practices are essential
Dennis M\"uller, Maurice Chiodo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05892

Ethical and sustainable mathematics is localised: why global paradigms fail and culturally-situated practices are essential
This paper identifies several different interconnected challenges preventing the move towards more ethical and sustainable mathematics education: the entrenched belief in mathematical neutrality, the difficulty of simultaneously reforming mathematics and its pedagogy, the gap between academic theory and classroom practice, and the need for epistemic decolonisation. In this context, we look at both bottom-up and top-down approaches, and argue that globalised frameworks such as the United Nations…

#LB Finalmente uma explicação de como o meu ralo desentupiu sozinho rs.
https://mastodon.com.br/@MeuRefugioNerd/115518063532895674

I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathematics, let alone computing.

Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them (Adam Zsolt Wagner/@azwagner_)
https://x.com/azwagner_/status/1986388872104702312

Adam Zsolt Wagner (@azwagner_) on X
Really happy to share our new paper on using AlphaEvolve for mathematical exploration at scale, written with Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and @GoogleDeepMind's Bogdan Georgiev. We tested it on 67 problems and documented all our successes and failures. 🧵