Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. Instead of seeming almost perfectly smooth, the torus that you envision ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians to ever live, known for showing up at the door of others in the field ...

When Assistant Professor of Mathematics Selvi Kara was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama ...

When artificial intelligence systems began cracking previously unsolved mathematical problems, the academic world faced an unexpected challenge: determining whether the solutions were genuinely novel ...

This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ...

Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...

A mathematician has claimed to have uncovered a hidden way to beat Deal or No Deal, after running thousands of computer ...

A Russian mathematician has developed a new method for analyzing a class of equations that underpin models in physics and ...