For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

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

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Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved ...

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

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...