Mathematics

Knots show how to generate infinitely many formulas of a kind developed by the visionary genius

Another bombshell result shows how artificial intelligence is fueling fierce competition at the frontiers of math and physics

The results resolve major problems in math, physics and computer science. But like other recent AI-generated “slop drops,” the releases are already controversial

AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world

The benchmark confirms that some AIs are becoming exceptional tools for research-level math. But open-source models still struggle

A stratagem that dates back two millennia leads to a math puzzle that took 30 years to solve

Rumors that OpenAI’s “Navier-Stokes” solution stole the work of two mathematicians may have been overblown

Researchers are using AI as a sounding board throughout their work. But concerns are growing that companies may present users’ ideas as those of their models

AI helped uncover a special object that can fill space without repeating patterns

Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming new deluge of achievements

The “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking proofs, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious

With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering