An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century. The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German ...
Gifted centers on the Navier-Stokes problem, prompting many viewers of the 2017 drama to wonder what the unsolved math problem is â and whether real-life mathematicians have since solved it. Directed ...
That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...
In the early 1930s, the renowned Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős set forth a puzzle. Erdős offered $500 to anyone who could crack it. Called the Erdős discrepancy problem, a puzzle that surmised ...
For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...
What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...
OpenAI has posted that it has solved several unsolved mathematical problems, ' Erdős' problems, ' posed by Paul Erdős, known as 'the mathematician who wrote the most papers in the 20th century.' ...
With Fermat's Last Theorem proved, the Riemann Hypothesis has become math's most glamorous unsolved problem, and has spawned a growing literature seeking to explain it to lay readers. Unfortunately, ...
Professor Curtis T. McMullen received the 1998 Fields Medal, deemed the most prestigious award in mathematics, for his work on complex dynamics. McMullen is also the creator of the Illustrating ...
Twenty-one years ago this week, mathematicians released a list of the top seven unsolved problems in the field. Answering them would offer major new insights in fundamental mathematics and might even ...
When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...