3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (280+ words) Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum objects that are otherwise fundamentally hard to access Quantum computers could benefit from a path around the Heisenberg uncertainty principle The Heisenberg uncertainty…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (493+ words) Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter battles in modern mathematics In 2012, Shinichi Mochizuki published a paper claiming to provide a proof for the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (487+ words) The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a bombshell when Kurt G'del first introduced it. G'del's seminal work directly contradicted one of the great minds of mathematics and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (395+ words) A computer language designed to robustly verify mathematical theorems and expose logical flaws has been turned towards a physics paper " and spotted an error. The discovery raises questions about how many other papers may harbour similar issues Machines can help…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (105+ words) New Scientist By David Stock and Jacklin Kwan The seemingly random distribution of prime numbers has confounded some of the best mathematical minds for centuries. But the Riemann hypothesis, which relates to the zeros in a mathematical function, may hold…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago  (236+ words) Physicists are grappling with how the increasing presence of AI will change the nature of their profession The American Physical Society Global Physics Summit is the world's largest meeting of physicists American Physical Society As the talks go on, I…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (218+ words) Many people who try using AI are disappointed with the results and feel they can't trust a machine " but are there lessons we can learn from how AI is taking on mathematics? Have you ever received an email and had…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (377+ words) Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together seemingly disparate mathematical fields Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize Peter Badge/Typos1 Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (772+ words) The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician Are the days of handwritten mathematics coming to an end? Mathematicians have been taken…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (290+ words) What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains how to combine their methods to improve your ability to guess…...