"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem ...

A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans. By Siobhan Roberts At the headquarters of Google DeepMind, an artificial intelligence laboratory in London, ...

Researchers at DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research division of Alphabet Inc., have created software that’s able to solve difficult geometry proofs that are often used to test the brightest ...

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 ...