ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

A breakthrough from an OpenAI model would have meant nothing without humans to make sense of it.

I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who knows me well: I love reading books about mathematicians. Not because I understand the dense mathematics. I struggled through four semesters ...

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

For nearly 80 years, a famous problem in discrete geometry had challenged mathematicians. All it took was a prompt from an internal OpenAI model to disprove a conjecture made by the late Hungarian ...

A portfolio in the mid six figures, a Social Security check that would feel tight in Phoenix or Tampa, and a daydream about ...

Nobody wants to retire in North Dakota. America’s fourth-least-populated state has fewer than 800,000 residents spread across ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...