Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...

OpenAI’s claim that GPT-5 had solved ten of Paul Erdős’s famous “unsolved” math problems has drawn sharp backlash from across the AI industry, after experts revealed the model merely rediscovered ...

Advances in AI are benefiting not only business and entertainment, but also various fields of research. In recent years, AI has been increasingly used in mathematical research, and mathematicians are ...

When artificial intelligence systems began cracking previously unsolved mathematical problems, the academic world faced an unexpected challenge: determining whether the solutions were genuinely novel ...

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