OpenAI said one of its internal models had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

OpenAI’s geometry proof highlights AI’s growing role in research, enterprise R&D, governance, and workforce strategy for ...

Methods for solving partial differential equations have progressed from analytical solutions to numerical simulations and, ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

OpenAI says an AI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture, raising new questions about AI’s role ...

A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence.

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft responds to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...