Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...
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 it matters.
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Richard Feynman restaurant meal math reveals a deeper truth about human choices. His hidden decision-making formula explains ...
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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...
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.
Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...
The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...