Fields Medalist Ngo Bao Chau said he decided to leave the U.S. for Hong Kong after 15 years because of a worsening academic ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid acceleration of its ability to solve some of arithmetic’s most challenging ...

A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for decades. A Rutgers ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

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