By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the ...
An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...
P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...
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