How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Sam Altman compared his child’s first two-word phrase to GPT-5.6 discovering new math, spotlighting OpenAI’s limited-preview ...

AI systems are increasingly helping out with math research, and this is now appearing in relevant data. A chart shared by Jasper ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Google and OpenAI have solved decades-old problems — but the scientific community is beginning to discuss whether limits should be placed on the technology ...

A breakthrough from an OpenAI model would have meant nothing without humans to make sense of it.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who knows me well: I love reading books about mathematicians. Not because I understand the dense mathematics. I struggled through four semesters ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Place a handful of dots on a sheet of paper and measure the distances between them. Rearrange the dots — how many pairs can you get sitting exactly the same distance apart? Simple enough to sketch on ...

OpenAI's artificial intelligence, or AI, just solved the planar unit distance problem, a tricky math challenge first posed in 1946 by Paul Erdos. The goal? Arrange points on a plane so as many pairs ...