It took more than 80 years, but a problem posed by a mathematician who delighted in concocting tricky ones has finally been solved. UCLA mathematician Terence Tao has produced a solution to the Erdős ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra’s oldest challenge – solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, ...

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao, who reviewed the result, said that ChatGPT used a completely different method to solve the ...

A 23-year-old without an advanced math degree reportedly solved a decades-old Erdős problem using GPT-5.4, surprising experts who had long been stumped. Mathematicians say the AI took an unexpected ...

Researchers have developed an artificially intelligent system that does the exact opposite of living in the moment. But it doesn’t just think a few steps ahead—it thinks millions of steps ahead. A ...