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A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems.

Science & Energy

Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

$AI has, for seemingly the first time, solved a famously difficult math problem — and folks, this discovery is huge if true.$

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind Says Its AI Solved a Math Problem That Humans Were Stumped By

By Noor Al-Sibai

$Eight years after it was shared online, a highly-controversial proof claiming to verify the abc conjecture is going to be published in an academic journal.$

Science & Energy

Mathematicians Are Shocked That This Paper Got Published

By Dan Robitzski

$Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.$

Science & Energy

Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

$Google's Deepmind just pitted its math-solving AI system against a 16-year-old's math exam. The exam won, and it wasn't that close.$

Google’s Best AI Just Flunked a High School Math Test

By Dan Robitzski

$Researchers taught honeybees math skills, revealing that the animals' tiny brains are more capable than we previously thought.$

Science & Energy

Honeybees Are Smart Enough to Learn Basic Math

By Kristin Houser

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

By Dan Robitzski

$Here’s How to Teach Yourself Physics and Math$

Here’s How to Teach Yourself Physics and Math

By Jolene Creighton

Strange Science: Physicists Find Classic Formula for Pi Hiding in Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Physics

Strange Science: Physicists Find Classic Formula for Pi Hiding in Quantum Mechanics

By Jolene Creighton

$Proof That You Use Algebra All The Time (Even If You Don’t Realize it)$

Science & Energy

Proof That You Use Algebra All The Time (Even If You Don’t Realize it)

By Jolene Creighton

Know Your 3.14 – This is What Pi Sounds Like

From Quarks to Quasars

Know Your 3.14 – This is What Pi Sounds Like

How To Fathom Pi: Amazing Visual Illustrations

Science & Energy

How To Fathom Pi: Amazing Visual Illustrations

By Jolene Creighton

How and Why did Newton Develop Such Complicated Mathematics?

From Quarks to Quasars

How and Why did Newton Develop Such Complicated Mathematics?