Just slow down. Of course, that means it’ll take longer to get to your destination. A few years ago, I wrote a piece for WIRED on finding an optimal driving speed, assuming the extra drive time costs ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Jack Murtagh is a freelance math writer and puzzle creator. He writes a column on mathematical curiosities for Scientific ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

OpenAI announced on May 20, 2026, that an internal general-purpose reasoning model had produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős's 1946 unit distance conjecture — a result in discrete geometry that had ...

The artificial intelligence boom is real. Sectors like healthcare, IT, education and many others are rapidly moving towards AI adoption. Now mathematicians have also acknowledged how AI is proving its ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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