Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

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A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led ...

After 32 years of waiting, mathematicians calculate Dedekind's ninth number, a 42-digit giant that defied logic.

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Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, John Nash—these “beautiful” minds never fail to enchant the public, but they also remain somewhat elusive. How do some people progress from being able to ...

Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, ...

Award-winning mathematician Professor Zhong Xiao has departed Finland after nearly three decades, bringing his foundational ...

In January, the math community had its big event of the year -- the Joint Mathematics Meeting -- where 3,000 mathematicians and math students gathered to talk about new advances in the field and ...

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches. In May of 1694, in a lecture hall at ...