A PHD in math disproved an 87 year old math problem with about two hours of working with Anthropic Fable. The Jacobian ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major ...

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

Artificial intelligence has formally verified the prizewinning proof that solved the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions, a result closely tied to Maryna Viazovska’s Fields Medal. The ...

Claude Fable 5 reportedly disproved the Jacobian Conjecture with a one-line counterexample, signaling AI’s growing math role.

In an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can’t switch back with the same person. Math ...

The Jacobian conjecture has bedeviled math experts for nearly 90 years.

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Chinese mathematicians Yu Deng and Hong Wang became the first Chinese nationals to win the Fields Medal after solving two century-old mathematical problems that had challenged researchers for decades.

Its writer, Ken Keeler, had to formulate an original mathematical proof to solve a significant plot problem. The bodies and minds of nine characters are mixed up so wildly that it becomes hard to ...