A series of recent research papers have shown that ChatGPT and related large language models can produce original, verifiable mathematical proofs, including solutions to problems that had not been ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

An artificial intelligence system has scanned thousands of mathematics papers, then selected 77 promising results for ...

OpenAI's breakthrough once again shows that AI is literally advancing at a breakneck pace, with major breakthroughs arriving ...

Anthropic says an unreleased Claude model produced a potentially new mathematical result while attempting to solve the famous Riemann hypothesis.

What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science and ...

Chris Hsu explores how Lean transformed mathematics through machine-checked proofs—and why formal verification could become ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...