On his way to winning a Fields Medal, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries. Number theorists, however, ...

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

After an eight-year struggle, embattled Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has finally received some validation. His 600-page proof of the abc conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that's been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s. The Providence, R.I.-based American ...

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Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) artificial intelligence models have reached new heights after achieving silver-medal standards through solving International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, ...

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