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On Wednesday, Jelani Nelson, a professor of theoretical computer science and chair of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science division, announced he was taking a leave of absence to ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

Problem-solving skills are essential in the age of artificial intelligence. Don’t Take Math Education For Granted As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, let’s not take for granted our ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...

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While Hollywood may be the city of stars, the Breakthrough Prize honored three Bay Area scientists with “Oscars of Science” on Saturday in recognition for their efforts to answer questions that have ...