2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1325+ words) PHILADELPHIA, PA.—On July 24, the math world's only true celebrity walked onto its most illustrious stage, to speak to the unprecedented threat that he and his peers are now facing. Since that evening, the pace has only accelerated. On Tuesday,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1424+ words) What happens when machines surpass the most brilliant human minds? Mathematicians are finding out By Joseph Howlett edited by Clara Moskowitz & Lee Billings PHILADELPHIA, PA.—On July 24, the math world’s only true celebrity walked onto its most illustrious stage, to…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (383+ words) 9:25 AM EDT on September 10, 2026 There are some people to whom correctness matters even more than it matters to coders, however: mathematicians. When a mathematician brushes up against “correctness,” they have good reason to believe they are doing so in a…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (36+ words) CoastTV Small Craft Advisory from WED 6:00 PM EDT until THU 8:00 AM EDT OpenAI is at odds with some mathematicians over the solution and the credit to a major problem....

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (168+ words) Mathematician Terence Tao, a 2006 Fields Medal winner and professor at UCLA, discusses with Big Think solving problems with AI and the process of finding solutions without. By using AI to effectively skip over the mistakes, challenges, and learning towards a…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (263+ words) OpenAI mathematicians discuss how AI models like GPT-5 and Astra assist in mathematical research, demonstrating that AI can excel in detailed reasoning and problem persistence, and Astra's proofs in sphere packing and non-sofic groups highlight AI's potential to make significant…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (535+ words) OfficeChai Fields Medalist Terence Tao has laid out a scenario in which one of the most famous open problems in mathematics gets “solved,” and mathematics is worse off for it. In a six-part thread, Tao used the Navier-Stokes global regularity problem…...

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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (613+ words) Mathematician Daniel Litt draws a sharp line between generating correct artifacts and producing the thing mathematics is actually for. Daniel Litt — University of Toronto “The goal of mathematics is not to produce mathematics papers. It’s to produce some kind of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1063+ words) In late July, at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia, the mathematician Jacob Tsimerman was awarded one of four Fields Medals – the highest honour in mathematics. A few hours later, Tsimerman announced that he was joining OpenAI. Tsimerman’s departure…...