Science & Tech AI leaps from math dunce to whiz Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer July 23, 2025 7 min read Experts describe how rapid advances are transforming field and classroom and expanding idea of what’s possible — ‘sky’s the limit’ When Michael Brenner taught the graduate-level class “Applied Mathematics 201” in fall 2023, the course’s nonlinear partial differential equations were too tough for artificial intelligence. AI managed to solve just 30 to 50 percent of the problem...
