Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence. By Siobhan Roberts In July, Jacob Tsimerman, a ...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. On the morning of Tuesday, ...

CalcLib is a Java-based numerical calculus library designed to perform differentiation, integration, and natural logarithm computations on generic numeric data. Rather than hard-coding calculations ...

You spent years studying string theory, a field at the intersection of mathematics and physics. But in 2017 your career pivoted. How did that happen? At that time, there was a new trend in science.

Ever since I retired, the La Jolla/Riford public library has become my second home. My library reserve queue is always maxed out and I generally read three books a week. The front seat of my car has ...

The term TACO — “Trump always chickens out” — has become a popular, if not always reliable, method to forecast the next turn from the mercurial American president, who’s now overseeing a new stage in ...

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An example of what it’s like to work on a proof using Lean. This proof demonstrates that an infinite number of prime numbers exists. Lean FRO For thousands of years, mathematicians have experienced ...

The latest flare-up in the debate over AI-assisted coding did not come from a new model release or a benchmark result. It came from a single line of text buried inside a software update. Earlier this ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...