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Grok 4.5 constructed a counterexample proving hypercontractivity fails on the 4-sphere, closing a decades-old gap in ...

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 ...

OpenAI said one of its internal models had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946. Experts say this result could indicate that AI is capable of ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Bengaluru: If you are a mathematician, then you may want to take a seat before reading further—this is how Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers told the world about an OpenAI model having solved a problem ...

AI is now helping produce research-level mathematics, but experts say verifying proofs not generating them is becoming the real challenge.

A mathematician in New Zealand has experienced his own eureka moment, solving a 40-year-old mathematical problem after 15 years of work. Professor Geoff Whittle, from Victoria University of Wellington ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...