# The Missing Primitive: Diagnosing and Repairing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02191
Published: 2026-10-01
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated striking capabilities on frontier mathematical problems, it remains unclear whether they possess the structural mathematical understanding underlying their

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