Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

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.” ...

This week, 8,000 Meta employees got an email by 4 a.m. their time letting them know if they were still employed. I wrote an opinion piece in the wake of those firings in which I stated very clearly ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Goldbach’s conjecture sounds almost too simple: every even number greater than two should be the sum of two primes. Mathematicians have chased it for nearly 300 years, a publisher once offered $1 ...

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Melissa Murphy’s eighth grader had been looking forward to the day she would learn whether she was accepted into a Danvers school that has the only nearby equine science program: Essex North Shore ...

The snow has melted and the balls, bats, lacrosse sticks, tennis racquets and other equipment has been broken out by Central Mass. high schools to signal the start of the spring sports season. This ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...