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

"Current automated techniques can produce plausible but unreliable (or even incorrect) arguments which are difficult to ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in math’s top journal if humans had done it alone ...

Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...