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

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

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 ...

A community meeting at the lefty Park Slope Food Coop over a proposed boycott of Israeli goods erupted into chaos on Tuesday night after a member declared, “Jewish supremacism is a problem in this ...

The U.S. blockade of Iran continues amid an uncertain round of peace negotiations, while Congress wrestles with the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown and the looming lapse of a key ...

When Multnomah County sought to keep people out of jail for possessing drugs, it spent $3.8 million to turn an old print warehouse on Southeast Sandy Boulevard into a depotlike clinic where cops could ...

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David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...