AI Helps Crack an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture With One Tiny Formula

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A.I. Disproves a Decades-Old Mathematical Idea, the ‘Biggest Conjecture’ That the Tech Has Played a Role in Yet

A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the ...
YouTube on MSN

Python functions explained for complete beginners

This Python tutorial explains how functions work and why they are essential for writing reusable, organized code. The lesson ...
Nature

Rising stars of mathematics awarded prestigious 2026 Fields Medal

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meet Sak Tahn Waax, a Maya Math Whiz Who Lived More Than 1,000 Years Ago and Left Behind a ‘Really Elegant, Complex’ Formula

For the first time, archaeologists identified one of the culture’s famed Classic era mathematicians and astronomers ...
IEEE

Voltage-Controlled Pulsed Current Source With Hyperbolic, Squared Hyperbolic, and Quasi-Dirac Delta Function Time Dependence

Abstract: A voltage-controlled pulsed current source (VCPCS) capable of generating current pulses with four different waveforms in the time domain is presented in this article. These waveforms are the ...