Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...

The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...

Sometimes I forget there's a whole other world out there where AI models aren't just used for basic tasks such as simple research and quick content summaries. Out in the land of bigwigs, they're ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research unit claims to have cracked an unsolvable math problem using a large language model-based chatbot equipped with a fact-checker to filter out ...