Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry. By Kenneth Chang A German mathematician, Gerd Faltings, is this year’s winner ...

Number theorist Gerd Faltings has won this year’s Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo announced on 19 March. Faltings, ...

Martin Hairer, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne. Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly ...

In the ongoing campaign by artificial intelligence companies to take over pure mathematics, another round is commencing. The team behind First Proof, an effort to benchmark the ability of large ...

Math nerds and pie lovers of the world, unite! The 14th day of March holds a double meaning, as this calendar date echoes the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi: 3.14. Often stylized ...

ACI Prensa Staff, 13 March, 2026 / 11:31 pm (ACI Africa). In a message conveyed through Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV on Friday said that mathematicians can become ...

Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes. Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check ...