For decades, a fundamental question about the difficulty of computing in high-dimensional spaces has resisted proof. New research resolves this question, removing a major theoretical obstacle to ...

Actually, no. Neuroscience shows you tend to be at your most creative when you’re not trying to be creative. Actually, you’re at your most creative when you’re not trying to do anything at all.

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A former NFL player named John Urschel decided to do some light reading this week, and for him that meant leafing through the latest math papers from OpenAI about topics such as the Riemann hypothesis ...

TUESDAY OCTOBER 6th 2026 may go down as one of the most consequential days in the history of mathematics. That was when OpenAI, an American artificial-intelligence firm, announced that its AI agents, ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. Illustration: Emil Lendof/WSJ, Getty Images A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its ...

And it's all coming to you in a new 'Unsolved Mysteries' documentary. By Tony Maglio The Ada County Sheriff’s Office in Boise, Idaho, has finally figured out the real identity of “The Unknown Wanderer ...

Last week, OpenAI shared a proposed solution to the “Navier-Stokes equation” — one of the seven renowned Millenium Prize Problems chosen by the Clay Mathematics Institute that have stumped ...

A U.S. Navy veteran's murder has been solved nearly four decades after his body was discovered in a cemetery in Arizona, authorities said. The man identified as the murder suspect had provided a DNA ...

The Navier-Stokes problem concerns equations of fluid motion, illustrated here as dye moving in liquid. Kterletska via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 The Navier-Stokes problem, a famous theoretical ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Math is hard. And, apparently, expensive. On Tuesday, OpenAI said its agents had solved the Navier-Stokes equations, a ...

In a year of unthinkable math progress, as increasingly powerful AI systems have cracked conjectures that had long stumped humans, OpenAI published a breakthrough on Tuesday that represents the most ...