Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

OpenAI researchers prematurely celebrated on social media, announcing that the AI had solved a series of famously difficult ...

OpenAI has posted that it has solved several unsolved mathematical problems, ' Erdős' problems, ' posed by Paul Erdős, known as 'the mathematician who wrote the most papers in the 20th century.' ...

After 27 years, Berkeley Math Circle has shut down its flagship program, BMC-Upper, due to “stringent” new campus background ...

When it comes to the biggest challenge yet to solve, however, it seems there’s not much debate: “The Riemann Hypothesis has a ...

Marjorie Rice, a homemaker from San Diego, solved a decades-old geometry problem in 1975. Her discovery of new pentagon ...

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

OpenAI's GPT-5 claimed to solve famous math problems, sparking industry backlash. Experts revealed the AI merely found existing solutions, not independent breakthroughs. This incident highlights AI's ...

A Sydney inventor’s solution for dirty ship hulls has attracted $16m funding. Now there are plans to build Australia’s ...