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A theorem as old as time… or almost For more than two millennia, Pythagoras’ theorem has stood as one of the cornerstones of ...

More than three decades after Andrew Wiles proved the 350-year-old Fermat's Last Theorem, mathematicians are teaching AI to understand and verify its famously difficult proof. The goal is not to solve ...

At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Grok 4.5 constructed a counterexample proving hypercontractivity fails on the 4-sphere, closing a decades-old gap in ...

Mistral AI has released Leanstral 1.5 as a free Apache-2.0 model for Lean 4 verification. Lean 4 is a proof-assistant and programming environment for machine-checkable proofs, and proof engineering ...

The geometric truth known as the Pythagorean theorem was discovered independently by several ancient civilisations. India's ...

Junqiao Lin has won the best student paper award at STOC, a premier conference in theoretical computer science held in Salt ...

The forces of nature converge to produce spirals and polygons and a multitude of other forms in both living and non-living ...

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether’s reasoning, we need to talk a bit more about the fundamentals of ...

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