OpenAI has revealed a breakthrough proof that overturns a nearly 80-year-old geometry conjecture posed by Paul Erdős.
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...
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, ...