At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...

Abraham de Moivre, a prominent figure in French mathematics, is best known for his contributions to probability theory. An ...

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Artificial intelligence was beaten by humans in solving 10 complicated mathematical problems within the “First Proof” project. The project was ...

The geometric truth known as the Pythagorean theorem was discovered independently by several ancient civilisations. India's ...

Two years later, we assess the proofs needed to satisfy the Muldrow standard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third ...

Blockchain networks rely on consensus mechanisms to keep thousands of distributed participants synchronized around a single version of the truth. Whether a network processes payments or executes smart ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

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.

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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