Math can mean different things to different people. It’s simple sums for children or sophisticated models for hedge fund managers. For mathematicians, it is an act of discovery. Many spend years ...

It took nearly 15 years, researchers around the world and enough computing power to search through a universe of possibilities to answer one question: Who goes first? Eric Harshbarger was at a gaming ...

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It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there ...

Fields medallist Timothy Gowers says the celebrated AI maths results arrived as counterexamples, not proofs. One is not even ...

Axiom Math says its AxiomProver system has produced a machine-checked Lean 4 proof of the strongest known result on gaps ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

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Mathematical models suggest that romantic relationships may follow measurable patterns shaped by attraction, emotional responses, and resilience to stress. Credit: Shutterstock By expanding dynamical ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the advanced mathematical capabilities of ChatGPT and its ilk ...