Hannah Cairo found herself stuck on a problem that wouldn't leave her mind. It wasn't a regular homework assignment—it was a decades-old mathematical puzzle believed to be true by leading experts in ...

OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines why the Collatz Conjecture is still a complex mathematical mystery.

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

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...

Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de ...

Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a mathematician astray. Early evidence might not represent the bigger picture ...

The Collatz conjecture is also known as the “3n + 1” problem. It’s an easy problem to explain and check, and has been tested up into the nineteen figure range. But it’s only now that anyone has come ...

Le Russe Grigori Perelman a été de nouveau récompensé jeudi par le Clay Mathematics Institute pour avoir résolu la conjecture de Poincaré, listée par cet institut comme l'un des sept problèmes les ...