OpenAI's massive data dump of more than 300 solved math problems triggered a wave of despair about the end of human supremacy. But one mathematician has found reasons to push back against the doom ...

The famous problem asks whether a map can be filled in with only four colors such that the same color never borders itself. It has been solved with the help of computers, but some experts suggest an ...

From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

Earlier this week, OpenAI published a trove of hundreds of mathematical results it claimed could “push the frontier of human knowledge”. Produced largely by an unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) ...

A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for decades. A Rutgers ...

The mathematician Richard Hamming said, “If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work.” In the math world, Hamming was known as a rebel. But unlike Jim Stark, ...