Tao was asked about the impact of AI on the field of math, because he’d recently posted some scathing comments about OpenAI’s latest and supposedly greatest GPT o1 model. Touted as the first model ...

In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply into view when members of the online Busy Beaver Challenge community closed in on a huge number that threatens to defy the logical ...

I. David Hilbert was 38 years old when he stepped up to address the Second International Congress of Mathematicians on the morning of Wednesday, August 8, 1900. The son of a judge in the East Prussian ...

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Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very small one, and as such, we feel sure Tom Lehrer was the greatest who ever ...

Before QLD gets the sporting Olympics in 2032, the Olympics of mathematics hits the state this week on the Sunshine Coast. More than a mathematics competition, IMO presents the opportunity to meet the ...

Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians to ever live, known for showing up at the door of others in the field ...

Louis Nirenberg, a mathematician who explored the complexities of equations commonly used by physicists and engineers, and who shared the 2015 Abel Prize, a top math award modeled after the Nobels, ...

Alexander Grothendieck was among the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, until he withdrew from the world. Neuroscience may finally shed light on why epoch-changing minds make drastic midlife ...

Gauss came from extremely humble origins. His grandfather was a landless peasant; his father was a jobbing gardener and bricklayer. Gauss attended the poorest kind of local school. A famous incident, ...

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the finale of Prime Target on Apple. Apple’s Prime Target — a twisty thriller about a brilliant math post-graduate student who’s close to making a huge ...