They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...
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Physicist Richard Feynman's forgotten notes on 'the restaurant problem' deciphered after 50 years

Researchers cracked a 50-year-old math problem scribbled by Richard Feynman over lunch. The equations show that humans are ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...
New Scientist

The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...
University of Massachusetts Lowell

Math Professor is First at UML to Win Radcliffe Fellowship

Mathematics Professor James Propp is the first UMass Lowell faculty member to win a prestigious yearlong research fellowship ...
Crypto Briefing

AI solves famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

For nearly eight decades, some of the sharpest minds in mathematics stared at a deceptively simple question about dots on a flat surface and couldn’t crack it. An AI just did. OpenAI announced that ...