Researchers thought that they were five years away from solving a math riddle from the 1980's. In reality, and without knowing, they had nearly cracked the problem and had just given away much of the ...

Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...

It turns out groundbreaking math in the era of AI just involves asking an LLM nicely for the result. That’s more or ...

Six Hollywood stars form a social group that has very special characteristics. Every distinct pair of stars in the group either mutually love each other or mutually hate each other. There is no set of ...