Over 100 NYU faculty and students attended a talk on OpenAI’s recent math proof by Vlad Vicol — chair of NYU’s Department of ...

Mathematicians love to collect elegant, profound questions that defy proof: the longer the holdout, the better. And one day ...

The program called Lean was built to detect bugs in Microsoft’s products. It ended up revolutionizing mathematics.

Google DeepMind's Gemini agents found proofs for open math problems, including Erdős problems unsolved for 56 years, at low ...

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.

An internal model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, though questions are emerging over how independently it got there.

NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge.

Mathematicians say they're still unpacking OpenAI's solution for the Navier-Stokes problems because the AI's proof is nearly ...

A dispute over the solution to one of the hardest problems in mathematics highlights key questions about the data companies share with AI tools.

A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997 ...

The Millennium Prize breakthrough is proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress ...

When you hear someone is good at math, you might think of someone who is fast at mental arithmetic or who has memorized many formulas. However, if you trace the history of mathematics, it seems that ...