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 ...

Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he’s working on the most important problem of his career.

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

Scott received roughly 4% of Amazon stock in her 2019 divorce — and Amazon's relentless growth since then has replenished her ...

Not every gut feeling works the same way. A psychologist breaks down the different types of intuitive intelligence — and the ...

When the roads get crowded, many drivers start changing lanes. Mathematics suggests this intuition is typically wrong ...

Testing 79 adults from Bolivia’s indigenous Tsimane’ farmer-forager population, who do not undergo formal U.S.-style ...

We readily distinguish regular geometric shapes with features like parallel sides, symmetry, and right angles from irregular ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools aimed at ...