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 ...

The unique geometric understanding of humans has been attributed to an evolutionary divide in symbolic cognition that distinguishes us from monkeys. We investigated how monkeys, preschoolers, and ...

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This year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics.

Turkish students excel in Japan’s Math final, securing victorious results and showcasing their mathematical prowess on the international stage.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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.” ...

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...

Three mathematicians just proved a famous 30-year-old conjecture in geometry, with only a tiny assist from AI. The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of ...

Associate professor of mathematics Otis Chodosh ’10 Ph.D. ’15 received the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize comes with a $100,000 award and ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

Inertia for Blender 5.1 uses Geometry Nodes systems to preview trajectories and drive projectile, orbital, and curve motion ...