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Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...
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 ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...
Final-year projects have used engineering maths to detect ocean pollution, design nanoparticles that target cancerous cells, and suppress flutter in aerofoils.
Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond. His two theorems destroyed the search ...
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution are co-hosting a daylong symposium exploring the ideas, technologies, and people that ...
To compare numbers, you need to look to see if a number is 'greater than' or 'less than' another number. You can use symbols to help you compare numbers: Small numbers are easy to count, but when ...
Don’t count, see the amount! Join the Numberblocks in this educational maths game all about the core numeracy skill of subitising. Developed with Early Years experts, this game will support children ...
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The use of advanced analytics in public health policy remains hindered by a disconnect between researchers, policymakers and technical experts. Bridging this gap requires intentional knowledge ...
Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...