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

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

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How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – but 100 years on, this trick is a common part of modern maths, says columnist ...

An AI model just did something that no human mathematician had managed to pull off: it found a concrete, verifiable counterexample proving that a fundamental property in functional analysis breaks ...

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AI can do many incredible things. It can create an email response from a voice prompt, make complex business decisions, and even solve complex math problems. But generative AI’s gifts come with a ...

Companies are shifting from running everything on the most powerful AI model to matching each task to the right one, a practice called model routing. The pressure for efficiency comes as large ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...