3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1325+ words) PHILADELPHIA, PA.—On July 24, the math world's only true celebrity walked onto its most illustrious stage, to speak to the unprecedented threat that he and his peers are now facing. Since that evening, the pace has only accelerated. On Tuesday,…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (592+ words) Admittedly, their names offer no special aesthetic appeal. But their forms are unique. Platonic solids are polyhedrons with the highest possible symmetry. Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (595+ words) OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, in a claim which also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit. Researchers at OpenAI said it…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (256+ words) Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind's oldest intellectual discipline, artificial intelligence has reportedly solved one of the…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (479+ words) As the saying goes, "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was." What most people don't tell you is that if you let that something go from exactly…...