Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely valuable. getty In today's column, I ...

The Jacobian conjecture has bedeviled math experts for nearly 90 years.

Timothy Gowers calls OpenAI's ten solved problems extraordinarily impressive, then spends 4,000 words on what they are not. The famous results were counterexamples rather than theorems. One of them, ...

A young mathematician teamed up with a new AI model to tackle one of the hardest open problems in mathematics, and the result is causing a stir among mathematicians and AI researchers on X. Levent ...

A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet. The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, ...