A legendary maths riddle finally has an answer. OpenAI says one of its general-purpose AI models has autonomously solved a famous problem first posed in 1946, with external mathematicians checking the ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Three mathematicians just proved a famous 30-year-old conjecture in geometry, with only a tiny assist from AI. The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of ...

Tensie Whelan (center), Stern alumni, and CSB partners celebrate a decade of leadership at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business 10-Year Anniversary Gala. Georgia Mohrbacher went to undergrad ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

Ethereum is steadily moving toward a future where zero-knowledge cryptography becomes a core part of the network itself, reflecting years of research that are now converging with real-world progress, ...

In litigation, everything comes down to evidence—what you can prove, what you can verify, and what holds up under scrutiny. The same principle now applies to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in ...

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In a world where data breaches and spying are common, zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are becoming a powerful cryptographic tool that lets you prove that something is true without revealing the secret ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...