A seemingly impossible math puzzle, discovered stuck to a tree by a passing hiker, has left the internet well and truly stumped. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, math remains ...

The error-checking layer then scores the Codey solutions to see if they are accurate. In high-level math, equations may have more than one solution, but not all of them are considered equally good.

Some math problems are as old as the wind, experts say and many remain truly unsolved. But a new open source-based site from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) looks to help track work ...

In 2009, mathematician Timothy Gowers proposed an unusual experience, inviting others to contribute to unsolved math problems. Enter the “Polymath Project.” ...

Yes. In his excellent book The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time2, Keith Devlin describes what mathematicians agreed upon in Paris in the year 2000 as ...

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Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research unit claims to have cracked an unsolvable math problem using a large language model-based chatbot equipped with a fact-checker to filter ...

More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton wrote down his foundational laws of motion, and mathematicians have been working on solutions to the three-body problem pretty much ever since. There is no ...

For decades, we have known of only 14 convex pentagons that can do something called "tiling the plane." Now there is a 15th shape, but mathematicians are still far from knowing exactly how many exist.

In 1900 German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943) presented a list of unsolved math problems at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, of which, "Cantor's problem of the ...

Elon Musk solved an “unsolvable” math problem after a Harvard professor called him “rich but dumb.” Rating: In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former ...