Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the ...

Physicists, mathematicians and philosophers have been exploring the possibility of going forward to the future or back to the ...

Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models. Recent examples include OpenAI’s disproof of the unit distance conjecture, and ...

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields ...

Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy. Jacob Tsimerman knows that many people ...

Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals ...

Yet another longstanding mathematical question has been resolved by AI – and it feels a little different from the ones that ...

Fields Medal 2026 winners were announced July 23 at ICM Philadelphia: Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman ...

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OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version ...

Sebastien Bubeck of OpenAI says “yes, nonsofic groups exist”—as an example of “many new beautiful results” from Astra, next major OpenAI model. OpenAI published a page and PDF detailing ten advances ...