Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, ...
The new declaration reflects many mathematicians’ growing alarm over a “severe misalignment” between the tech industry and their field, a week after AI toppled one of math’s biggest open problems ...
25 winners of mathematics' highest honor, among them a medalist who joked he would quit the field for romance fiction, warned that AI companies are damaging their discipline.
In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is ...
Ukrainian professor Maryna Viazovska received top mathematics prize Fields Medal alongside three others – Copyright AFP Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Ukraine’s Maryna ...
This month, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field’s most prestigious awards, the Abel Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ...