An international team of researchers has performed a mind-bending simulation of the Milky Way. For the first time, the team ...

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DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

THIS is an enlarged and beautifully produced edition of a pamphlet which has been circulated before under the simpler title “The Trisection of an Angle”. Since Euclid cannot be supposed to have ...

For every popular list of unsolved problems, there are scholars and students dreaming of -- and working towards -- solving the puzzles they contain. Many search for creative solutions, only to reach ...

This is a huge advance for AI to make big progress with better reasoning and better math. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) with advanced mathematical reasoning has the potential to unlock new ...

Conway’s knot, a famous mathematical problem, was a tricky one to untangle. Mathematicians have been arguing about how to solve it for more than 50 years—until 2018, when graduate student Lisa ...