Robledo, a mathematician at the University of Connecticut, has called “possibly the single most important day in the history of mathematics thus far”. On October 6th OpenAI released a torrent of 719 ...

How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question. For Sarah Powell, an associate professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, the question was this math problem: ...

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the ...

One hundred years ago, in the 1924 Paris Olympics, American Johnny Weissmuller won the men's 100m freestyle with a time of 59 seconds. Nearly 100 years later, in the most recent Olympics, the delayed ...

For decades, calculators have been our trusted companions for arithmetic, speeding up calculations but never truly ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, into orbit, kicking off the space race during the Cold War. What do you notice when you compare the weather of 1978 with ...

A month after resolving one of the six biggest open problems in mathematics, the company says its new internal model has ...

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