But now Google’s DeepMind team has built AlphaProof, an AI system that matched silver medalists’ performance at the 2024 ...

Google's AlphaProof is capable of solving complex mathematics but it's greatest feature may actually be finding errors.

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One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a decades-old dream when they unveiled a proof of ...

Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 ...

When Old Town High School Math Teacher Kristen Thompson uses TriO—a virtual reality environment developed by researchers at ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

For those whose mathematical training extended not far past 2 + 2 = 4, math can seem like a dry, precise field, punctuated by absolutes. But the deeper you go into mathematics, the fuzzier and more ...