‘hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx’: why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent ...
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Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk, a 70-year-old math problem

Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de ...

Think You’re Good at Math? See How Far You Get With These 10 Unsolved Problems

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...
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AI Math Breakthrough: OpenAI Disproves 80-Year Erdős Conjecture

An OpenAI model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture, and Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine more open problems days later. Together, these AI math breakthroughs mark a ...
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"Once In A Century" Math Proof Threads The Needle On A Decades-Old Conjecture

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
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Mathematicians prove the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture

Monstrous moonshine, a quirky pattern of the monster group in theoretical math, has a shadow - umbral moonshine. Mathematicians have now proved this insight, known as the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, ...