Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

But proof, strictly understood, is only half the story here. Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Kucharski relates, taught himself to derive Euclid’s proofs to give himself an argumentative edge in the ...

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using ...

The goal of the new grant-making program, Exponentiating Mathematics, is to speed up the pace of progress in pure (as opposed to applied) math – and, in doing so, to turn AI into a superlative ...

The Holy Father is thought to be the first math major to become pope – and math aficionados say it’s about time.

Taurus is rolling out a zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) privacy layer for stablecoins, starting with Circle’s USDC. It continues open source work done by Taurus involving ZKP privacy enhancements ...

Epoch AI hired Elliot Glazer, who had recently finished his math Ph.D., to join the new collaboration for the benchmark, dubbed FrontierMath, in September 2024.