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Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. In a blog ...

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Black marker in hand, Nick Baar returned to the whiteboard. The newly minted math tutor wrote an equation for the eighth-graders in front of him: 25 x 199 The rules were simple: No calculators or ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

The latest math problem to go viral and stump the internet involves a playful illustration of ice cream cones. Artist Gergely Dudás, who is known for his tricky hidden object puzzles, shared the ...

A Chinese doctor has unexpectedly solved a major mathematics problem dating to 2004 with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol while trying to ...