Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

George Dantzig arrived late to class, copied two problems off the board thinking they were homework — and accidentally made ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

Jerome Powell exits the Fed chair role May 15 but stays on the board. Here's what Warsh's chairmanship really means for DeFi ...

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

Humble prodigy or deceptive impostor? Jiang Ping has been fueling online discussions since her remarkable score in the Alibaba maths competition. It’s rare for a math competition to become the focus ...

The AI debate right now centres almost entirely on models - which LLM is smarter, whether they'll be commoditised, whether OpenAI or Anthropic or Google wins the arms race. These are real questions.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Welcome to Day 2 of Shark Week! Today on the show, actress Wunmi Mosaku joins Chioma in the London podcast studio, where they dive into all things Sinners—from how Wunmi booked the job to the powerful ...