Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recently heralded victory by ...

The Microsoft Office suite of productivity programs has long been the industry standard for professional work. Plenty of alternatives have come and gone over the years, but today, despite there being ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...