What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

Despite multiple conferences dedicated to explicating Mochizuki’s proof, number theorists have struggled to come to grips with its underlying ideas. His series of papers, which total more than 500 ...

An OpenAI AI model has solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded humans for over 50 years. Ethan Knight, a researcher at ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

GPT-5.6 Sol Pro disproved a 20-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes that GPT-5.5 couldn't crack in over 20 hours — a ...

The cycle double cover conjecture asks whether, in a graph made up of vertices and edges, it is possible to construct several ...

A pair of mathematicians has solved the first chunk of one of the most famous conjectures about the additive properties of whole numbers. Proposed more than 60 years ago by the legendary Hungarian ...