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I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who knows me well: I love reading books about mathematicians. Not because I understand the dense mathematics. I struggled through four semesters ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

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The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

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We’ve all heard the advice to “sleep on it,” but science is starting to show that this isn’t just a comforting phrase – it may reflect something real happening inside the brain. A new study suggests ...