Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. Instead of seeming almost perfectly smooth, the torus that you envision ...

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...

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

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For almost 160 years, the Riemann hypothesis has been one of ...

When Assistant Professor of Mathematics Selvi Kara was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, she started a math club with one of her colleagues to help middle school ...

Johnson helped pave the way for NASA achievements. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday morning ...

Spanish scientist Pascual Diago has published a delusional study to denounce the invasion of fraudulent publishers in science ...

Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place. Edray Goins is one of ...

Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians to ever live, known for showing up at the door of others in the field ...

A Russian mathematician has developed a new method for analyzing a class of equations that underpin models in physics and ...