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 ...

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 ...

But from the perspective of research mathematicians, and especially young people who are pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics, ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university ...

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

Schools would be required to offer two new classes for the personalized track: a half-credit health course and a one-credit course teaching financial literacy and life skills and dedicating time for ...

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other ...

Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

Sinéad O’Sullivan is a former senior researcher at Harvard Business School, professor in aerospace engineering and now works ...

Together, we three — two math professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and one longtime high school math teacher ...

Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he ...

But even if you disagree with our critique of today’s math curriculum, there is a deeper problem. We never had the ...