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 ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

Is an artificial intelligence revolution about to transform mathematics? Some prominent mathematicians think so, thanks to automated tools that can help write proofs suddenly showing impressive leaps ...

In August 1998, Thomas Hales sent an e-mail to dozens of mathematicians in which he declared that he had used computers to prove a conjecture that had evaded certain confirmation for 400 years. 1 The ...

Algebraic groups consist of elements, such as the whole numbers (−3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3 …), and an operation. The operation—for example, addition—combines ...