VUB's Data Analytics Lab has published new results showing that it is possible to develop original mathematical proofs using commercial language models. In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

Students had to compile a portfolio and discuss it in an interview to demonstrate their understanding and ability to apply ...

DeepMind’s AlphaProof system solved four out of six problems at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, generating ...

Epshtein argues that a deeper understanding of generalization and principled use of prior knowledge are essential to building ...

Eclipse, a blockchain infrastructure platform founded by computer scientist Neel Somani, has released new insights into the growing role of artificial intelligence in mathematical discovery. The ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

AIP and APS are honored to award Charles Thorn with the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Thorn is being ...

The computer-generated "ideal glass" solves a 75-year-old physics paradox and promises revolutionary materials.

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.