In mid-October, Justin Gilmer flew from California to New York to attend a friend’s wedding. While on the East Coast he visited his former adviser, Michael Saks, a mathematician at Rutgers University, ...

OpenAI's AI model solved the famous unit distance problem, a question that had challenged mathematicians since 1946 ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

A mathematician may have just proved the impossible possible. For 30 years, mathematicians wondered if you could have an infinite set of numbers where each pair of numbers adds up to a unique value, ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

News that large language models (LLM) have made major advances in solving Erdős problems – a set of problems formulated by the renowned 20 th-century mathematician Paul Erdős – has created an ...