There are no known examples so far, but mathematicians are hopeful. Mathematicians have revealed a new category of “digitally delicate” prime numbers. These infinitely long primes turn back to ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

DeepMind's Aletheia is a huge advance in AI-driven mathematical reasoning. It is a research agent built on top of Gemini Deep ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

We present Prover Agent, a novel AI agent for automated theorem proving that integrates large language models (LLMs) with a formal proof assistant, Lean. Prover Agent coordinates an informal reasoning ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

From Abraham Lincoln's patent to James A. Garfield's geometry proof, learn how these 19th- and 20th-century commanders in ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

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