Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
Brain teaser: Crack this tricky maths puzzle and prove your IQ is off the charts
Brain teasers have become a favourite pastime for many online users. They not only provide a fun escape but also serve as a great mental workout. Whether you're solving a riddle on your commute or ...
AI LLMs Astonishingly Bad At Doing Proofs And Disturbingly Using Blarney In Their Answers
Turns out generative AI and LLMs are bad at devising math proofs. That's a surprise. Worse still is that the AI tries to make ...
The Trump White House Cited My Research to Justify Tariffs. It Got It All Wrong.
Mr. Neiman was a Biden administration Treasury official who co-wrote trade-related academic research cited by the Trump White ...
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Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem About Spinning a Needle That Had Long Puzzled the Field
A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...