Fields Medalist Ngo Bao Chau said he decided to leave the U.S. for Hong Kong after 15 years because of a worsening academic ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid ...

A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for decades. A Rutgers ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

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In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...