1+ hour, 24+ min ago  (540+ words) Artificial intelligence built by Open AI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erd's, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics The planar unit distance problem is about how many equal-sized lines you can draw…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (356+ words) A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a pseudonym for nearly a century. Columnist Jacob Aron finds that this mythic collective provided maths a rigorous and useful foundation, and did some real harm…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (648+ words) Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of mathematics. In doing so, they demand a whole new level of logic Did you hear the one about the man who invented…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (322+ words) Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof " in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem " remains an absolute treasure, almost three decades after it was first published How does Simon Singh's classic popular science book Fermat's Last Theorem hold up today? Did…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (648+ words) Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of mathematics. In doing so, they demand a whole new level of logic Did you hear the one about the man who invented…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (682+ words) Pushing against years of scepticism, an analysis suggests quantum computers may offer real advantages for running machine learning and similar algorithms in the near future Quantum computing and AI may one day work together NESPIX/Shutterstock Quantum computers might eventually…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (733+ words) Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathematics AI tools are helping to decipher long-standing…...

4+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...