A computer chip modeled after the human brain just solved the kind of math that keeps fighter jets from shaking apart in flight simulations and power grids from collapsing in planning models. In a ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

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In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...