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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

The theater goes dark and silence fills the room. Bodies crammed shoulder to shoulder negotiate every inch, angling to get closer to the stage. Just when the anticipation is at a fever pitch, the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

So far, five Google icons have undergone gradient updates. 9to5Google can now report on a complete gradient redesign for Gmail and other Google Workspace apps. Google is addressing a major criticism ...

Kayla Cruz started hunting for jobs in the New York region after she graduated from Northeastern University last May. She’s still looking. The job market for recent college graduates in New York is ...

Ryan Burge’s Vanishing Church shows the importance of faith for America. Ryan Burge “stumbled” into ministry, as he put it. He left the pastorate with his church in decline, but he has not yet given ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...