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AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
...in how mathematicians tackle difficult problems. This particular difficult problem deals with differential equations, which express relationships between changing quantities. They are arguably the single most important mathematical tool for...
Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?
In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the...
Does Computer Science Need Computers?
...just to solve math problems, but also for tasks like sorting items. From this perspective, the math underlying computation is central; computers themselves are relevant only because they open up...
‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance
For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups. One does not need a doctorate in mathematics to...
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
...in applied math. But I do think pure math will expire before applied math does, and maybe neither will. Maybe we’ll just keep going forever. What does it look like...
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how...
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
...on cue, another “hold my beer” moment: Google DeepMind and the mathematician Terence Tao (the GOAT!) used AI to rediscover or improve the solutions to 67 problems “spanning mathematical analysis,...
How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?
...like, I’m guessing about 35 years from the time. When you were an undergraduate in a class that I was teaching in the math department at MIT, it was a...
A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path
...seemingly unrelated subject: understanding the best way to choose randomly from a large collection of mathematical objects. For these efforts and others, Oveis Gharan has received the International Mathematical Union’s...