At first glance, Richie Sater, CPA, had no business solving a problem that had stumped mathematicians for four decades. But Sater actually may be the perfect person, and accounting may be the perfect ...

‘The Enchanted Book’ combines elements of art and engineering to create an automated mechanism that flips pages, emits light, and offers sound (Illustration by Yesenia Darling) Once upon a time a ...

“Exponentially exploding,” mathematician Thomas Bloom told me by phone, describing the flood of new results in his field. Little did he know that hours later, OpenAI was going to post 722 mathematical ...

When Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon a few weeks ago, the lab said it would be limiting initial access to the new AI model to cybersecurity defenders. Now it’s loosening the reins and letting ...

Leading China’s mathematicians joined forces in Beijing on Sunday to launch an alliance aimed at integrating artificial intelligence into mathematical research. The Yau Laboratory Alliance for ...

Mathematics may hold unexpected clues to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have developed a model showing how common metals like copper and zinc may influence the buildup of proteins ...

Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

Another mathematician accused the company of ‘dishonesty’ after several big breakthroughs. Another mathematician accused the company of ‘dishonesty’ after several big breakthroughs. is a London-based ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...

The opinion section of the San Francisco Standard published an op-ed over the weekend that quickly reignited the ongoing debate over SAT and ACT requirements in UC admissions. In about 2,000 words, UC ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 ...

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