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University of Chicago mathematics Prof. Yu Deng has received the Fields Medal for his contributions toward placing the laws ...

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Thomas Mulligan delves into the profound complexities of the infinite monkey theorem to clarify how random processes can eventually produce any possible outcome within the vastness of mathematical ...

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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 See more of ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

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 ...

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