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What Is Math???s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (514+ words) The wormholes are known as Langlands correspondences, and the decades-long effort by hundreds of mathematicians to extend and exploit these correspondences is the Langlands program. Because it suggests an underlying unity to the universe of mathematical truths, the Langlands program…...
AI Has Solved One of Math???s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (543+ words) The proof of a “blowup” has blown up the mathematics community. This particular difficult problem deals with differential equations, which express relationships between changing quantities. They are arguably the single most important mathematical tool for explaining the world around us....
Quanta Magazine Articles on the Foundations of Mathematics
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (234+ words) In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to…...
Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1836+ words) Chanelle Nibbelink for Quanta Magazine Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app, or you can stream it from Quanta. JANNA LEVIN: Thank you so much for being here. I’m Janna Levin. STEVE STROGATZ: And I’m Steve…...
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1134+ words) Sarah Demers, who is co-authoring a policy statement about the use of AI in physics, has never typed anything into Claude or ChatGPT. “We have all of these knobs that we can turn to optimize our experiment,” said Sarah Demers,…...
Does Computer Science Need Computers?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (881+ words) In philosophy, “qualia” refers to the subjective qualities of our experience: what it’s like for Alice to see blue or for Bob to feel delighted. Qualia are “the ways things seem to us,” as the late philosopher Daniel Dennett put…...
???Huge Breakthrough??? in the Math of Imbalance
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1320+ words) Ada Zejun Shen for Quanta Magazine So, how evenly can you assemble the teams so that they have matching firepower in every category, from Greek mythology to college basketball? You can always make the teams surprisingly even, according to researchers…...
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1845+ words) When an LLM answers a question, is it reasoning like humans, or just producing text that looks like reasoning? The distinction isn’t just philosophical, this determines what we can trust AI to do, how closely we need to supervise it,…...
Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
3+ week, 3+ day ago (162+ words) No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery. The post Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a…...