This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

When we think about all the errors chatbots make, we might have to rethink what the goal of artificial intelligence is.

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, believes LLMs are doomed due to their inability to represent the high-dimensional ...

It is worth noting that the lawsuit asks the court to move as quickly as possible to block implementation of Idaho’s HB 93.

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...