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Some, however, find that bridging fields opens new realms of possibility. Henry Kvinge, who trained as a mathematician but ...

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For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

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Math classrooms shifted over time to the discovery model. Not suddenly, and not without good intentions. There was a ...

AI can do many incredible things. It can create an email response from a voice prompt, make complex business decisions, and even solve complex math problems. But generative AI’s gifts come with a ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows that systems still fall short of top human expertise. Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet ...