Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little ...

OpenAI has said that Astra, a model it has not yet released publicly, produced solutions to ten long-open problems in ...

German mathematician Edmund Hess was one of the most prolific discoverers of noble polyhedra. Since he first embarked on a ...

One does not need a doctorate in mathematics to split 12 eager trivia buffs into two competitive teams. But consider that each person arrives with unique strengths and liabilities: One may be a ...

A 17-year-old student from Pennsylvania has won the top prize at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search after using computer programming to tackle a long-standing problem in geometry. Connor Hill of ...

On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and also the cynosure of mathematicians from around the globe after he proved the famous Crouzeix’s ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

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 ...