In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry. By Kenneth Chang A German mathematician, Gerd Faltings, is this year’s winner ...

For mathematical genius Wan Daqing, life is no longer a competition between China and the United States. Instead, he has encountered the rivalry of universities within China seeking to appoint him.

Polish mathematician Bartosz Naskrecki, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, is amazed as an AI program successfully solves a maths problem he has been working on for nearly 20 years in advanced ...

Kyoto, March 19 (Jiji Press)--Kyoto University professor emeritus Heisuke Hironaka, an acclaimed Japanese mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 1970, died on Wednesday. He was 94. Born in ...

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Doing your banking by phone is a convenience most of us now take for granted. But how can you be certain it’s safe and secure? Turns out that mathematicians deserve much of the thanks. That’s ...

A British Columbia mathematician who was deemed a vexatious litigant by a judge for initiating numerous legal actions without merit was killed in a targeted incident by people who were known to him, ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in what was an empty storefront along the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. By ...

Martin Hairer, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne. Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly ...

SURREY - A British Columbia mathematician who was reported missing last month by concerned neighbours was allegedly killed in a “targeted” incident by two people known to him who now face murder ...