Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

OpenAI announced this week that one of its general-purpose reasoning models made a breakthrough that has grabbed the ...

Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel ...

The takeaway: Minecraft was never designed to behave like a calculator. Its world is built entirely from cubes, with no smooth curves and no native concept of continuous geometry. That makes it an ...

AI solved a math problem that stumped experts for 80 years, revealing deeper lessons about human cognition, focus, and ...

Nöther was born into a Jewish family in the Franconian city of Erlangen. Her parents, the mathematician Max Nöther and Ida ...