Who would have imagined that an artificial intelligence tool accessible to everyone could participate in the creation of novel mathematical proofs? This observation marks a milestone in the field ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

The project aims to develop AI with true mathematical reasoning, a crucial step toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Professor Lee Kyu-hwan of the University of Connecticut's ...

The Collatz conjecture is also known as the “3n + 1” problem. It’s an easy problem to explain and check, and has been tested up into the nineteen figure range. But it’s only now that anyone has come ...

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