Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...
Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.
For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...
DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...
Georgetown University psychologist Shadab Tabatabaeian, the paper’s lead author, imagines a “cool application” of their ...
Do you need to fairly allocate players to teams, or sort out a pot of badly brewed coffee? Katie Steckles has a mathematical ...
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...
Dr. Lance Bryant How can a cylinder look perfectly circular and yet appear square in the mirror? In this talk, we explore ...