A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

Three Duke Rugby players who are math majors tackled a challenge inspired by professional soccer Daniel Cheng, Malachy ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the study by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko doesn’t predict population ...

OpenAI’s general-purpose reasoner just broke an 80-year-old conjecture in discrete geometry. The model wasn’t trained to do mathematics. It runs the same architecture that drafts emails and writes ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

Some "simple math" indicates that oil prices need to rise to balance out the huge supply disruption triggered by the Iran war, JPMorgan analyst Natasha Kaneva wrote in a note this week. Brent oil ...

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