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"Once In A Century" Math Proof Threads The Needle On A Decades-Old Conjecture

If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua Zahl and Hong Wang, that special interest was the Kakeya conjecture. “I read ...
Gizmodo

‘Remarkable’ Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem

You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an all-knowing wizard. The prophecy says that with these oracles’ help, you can learn ...
Nature

Mathematicians put AI model AlphaProof to the test

Talia Ringer is in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA. Read the paper: Olympiad-level formal mathematical ...
Quanta Magazine

Pierre de Fermat’s Link to a High School Student’s Prime Math Proof

Like many math students, I had dreams of mathematical greatness. I thought I was close once. A difficult algebra problem in college kept me working late into the night. After hours of struggle, I felt ...