In difficult mathematical problems, reaching the answer itself has historically taken a long time. One must find a single path among numerous possibilities, choosing which theorems to use, which ...

If mathematicians have no reason to pursue the mysteries of their field, the rest of us will stumble into a less certain ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

A series of recent research papers have shown that ChatGPT and related large language models can produce original, verifiable mathematical proofs, including solutions to problems that had not been ...

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Claude produced a 13-million-line, computer-checked proof of the famed conjecture — a major milestone in mathematics.

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

VUB's Data Analytics Lab has published new results showing that it is possible to develop original mathematical proofs using commercial language models. In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, ...