These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...
Newly released national test scores show student achievement in math rising at the elementary school level—but not among ...
Venture capital, long the dominant engine of drug development, was never really built for rare disease. The returns simply don’t scale to the fund sizes venture capitalists need to justify the effort.
The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...
Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...
A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...
In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...
P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...
OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...
OpenAI has once again made a big claim in the world of AI and mathematics. The company says that one of its latest AI reasoning models has successfully solved a famous geometry problem that remained ...