Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified ...

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Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...

Artificial intelligence has formally verified the prizewinning proof that solved the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions, a result closely tied to Maryna Viazovska’s Fields Medal. The ...

In 1976, Appel and Haken proved the Four Color Theorem by reducing it to thousands of cases and checking them mechanically.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

Axiom Math says its AxiomProver system has produced a machine-checked Lean 4 proof of the strongest known result on gaps ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this topic [Kevin ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

The same branch of mathematics that helped Einstein to formulate his theory of general relativity could now allow scientists to peer with unprecedented accuracy into impenetrable objects—such as the ...