OpenAI’s trove of new math results doesn’t fully solve any of these highly prestigious open questions, but it seems to make ...

This staggering quantity of mathematical progress builds on AI developments that have unsettled the research community.

Such a glut has left some queasy. The excitement of potential new mathematical truths is, for many researchers, freighted ...

Remember when OpenAI landed in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem? (I know it feels like ...

Evangelists say AI saves time and increases productivity. Doomsayers argue AI will destroy humanity. While the truth may be somewhere in between, lawmakers and businesses are figuring out how to put ...

Systemization thinking, or systems thinking, is the habit of seeing things as systems instead of isolated events. A normal thinker looks at slow customer support, for example, and says, “Let’s reply ...

Although climate change gets the headlines, we still have the old environmental challenges, such as preserving wildlife and reducing water pollution—the kind of concerns that kicked off Earth Day 1970 ...

Solving problems isn’t an ability everyone has naturally. Personally, I can get frazzled in high-stress situations while others can keep a cool head and comfort people with a calm conversational style ...

This is a story about keeping the faith in a discipline not exactly known for its religiosity: mathematics. The field of arithmetic statistics — the study of statistical patterns in arithmetic objects ...

OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the ...

The company’s announcement has been dogged by questions about whether it improperly used work from another research team or ...

The Riemann hypothesis claims that the locations of prime numbers along the infinite number line all adhere to a beautiful and orderly but obscure formula. Yet 167 years after German mathematician ...