In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

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Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

Top artificial intelligence systems now ace many textbook-style math questions, yet they still fall apart on genuinely new problems. The gap between polished performance on familiar benchmarks and ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that ...

This problem ranks 6th on our list of easiest math problems that look hard. It is very interesting as the difficulty comes not from the math itself, but rather from the unusual assumption with which ...

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For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...