DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...
In 1978 Steve Fisk, a mathematics professor at Bowdoin College in Maine, US, came up with a proof—considered one of the most ...
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.
This 180-sided object cannot fit through another like it, no matter where you bore the hole or how you tilt it.
The infinite hotel paradox imagines a hotel with endless rooms that somehow runs out of space. Even when new guests arrive, ...
An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. Give it a try to see if you can ...
Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.