A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the ...

Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major ...

Dr. Deng, a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, received a Fields Medal for his work on an equation ...

John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a ...

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium ...

In an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can’t switch back with the same person. Math ...

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

Claude Fabel 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture over the weekend, landing days after the capabilities of China's Kimi AI became the biggest force moving bitcoin markets.

Children in regional and remote schools are missing out on vital education, with more than 500 teachers desperately needed for crucial subjects such as maths, English and science.

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The theory of thermodynamics has helped us understand devices like engines for more than 200 years, but its mathematical foundations have always been a little too imprecise. Now, researchers are ...