Such questions are critical to a long-standing puzzle of percolation theory, a subfield of probability theory focused on the ...

According to The Information, OpenAI's primary concern is not solving the Hodge Conjecture but announcing they did so without further infuriating mathematicians. Reading time 2 minutes Not long after ...

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Abdul El-Sayed Narrowly Wins Michigan Democrats. Can He Pivot to November? The insurgent progressive sneaks past Rep. Haley Stevens, amid big polling error, prompting new debate on socialism and the ...

The opinion section of the San Francisco Standard published an op-ed over the weekend that quickly reignited the ongoing debate over SAT and ACT requirements in UC admissions. In about 2,000 words, UC ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 ...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted ...

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Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews WSJ Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg News If nobody understands a mathematical proof ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...