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A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

In a prospective validation study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated that a new ...

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

Ching-Yao Lai, an assistant professor of geophysics at Stanford University, works to advance scientific understanding of ice ...

We have spent years testing AI models on document extraction. Not edge cases—invoices. The simplest version of the task: read ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Learn how to solve problems using linear programming. A linear programming problem involves finding the maximum or minimum value of an equation, called the objective functions, subject to a system of ...

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How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show how forces and cooperation between cells create structure—and how ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...