Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time using AI to work on Erdős problems. The work itself is technical, but the lesson it ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

EL PAÍS reconstructs what many media outlets sold as ‘the news story of the year,’ and some of its protagonists described as ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...