The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Frustrated by AI industry claims of proving math results without transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University tackled the problem in a recent study by working backward from an existing polyhedral torus to answer questions about what would be needed to ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

She navigated segregation to become an esteemed mathematician — and today, her work helps billions of people navigate the world. Gladys West, whose pioneering career contributed key elements to what ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Mathematician Lovelace, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage your mind, enjoy leisure time, and ...

Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

AI tools developed by Google DeepMind are surprisingly effective at assisting mathematical research and could usher in a wave of AI-powered mathematical discovery at a previously unseen scale, say ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...