A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the ...

Fields Medal 2026 winners were announced July 23 at ICM Philadelphia: Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman ...

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Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

The 5th Weixin Mini Program Global Innovation Challenge launched its Southeast Asia Regional competition in Singapore on 21 ...

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

A thread posted July 15 on the r/math subreddit claims that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, guided by a carefully constructed prompt, produced a formal mathematical proof that closes a gap in convex optimization ...

For decades, empirical research has shown that programming is a demanding cognitive activity: Developers rely on working ...

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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 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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