Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades.

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

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Yosra Barkaoui’s doctoral dissertation in mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, has successfully generalised a fundamental theorem that has been limited to the bounded case. The research ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu’s maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

AI tools developed by Google DeepMind are surprisingly effective at assisting mathematical research and could usher in a wave of AI-powered mathematical discovery at a previously unseen scale, say ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

Mathematics is full of mysteries, but some are older than entire civilizations. The oldest unsolved problem in math has persisted for centuries, resisting every attempt to solve it. From the ancient ...

AI believer: Sanjeev Arora on the stage at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum explaining his ideas about superhuman AI mathematicians. (Courtesy: Christian Flemming/HLF) When researchers at Microsoft ...

Most scientists think that everything that we know and experience began with the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. But how can ...