Scientific American

Master of chaos wins $3-million math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

AI Solved A Mathematical Problem That Had Stumped The World’s Best Minds For Decades

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...
The Atlantic

We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...
The New York Times

A Mathematician Who Makes the Best of Things

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...