Terence Tao was reading and counting by age 2, studying university-level math by 9, and finished a Princeton PhD by 20. He went on to win the Fields Medal, become tenured at UCLA at 24, help prove ...

Private letters from the late Princess Diana to actor Terence Stamp, who died last year, are going on sale, revealing the depth of their friendship and touching on topics such as royal duties, mental ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

I am attempting to solve a mathematical conundrum that has stumped many of humanity’s greatest thinkers. I have zero mathematical training, apart from a distant undergraduate physics degree, which ...

Earlier this year, in March 2026, math prodigy and Fields Medal winner Terence Tao said AI could split mathematical work into specialized roles if verification keeps pace with automation. AI tools ...

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 ...

Liam Price has no formal training in mathematics and has yet to attend university, but last month, he managed to break new ground in mathematical research — with the help of ChatGPT. Posting on the ...

The late Terence McKenna isn’t easy to categorise. A lecturer, author, ethnobotanist, philosopher and High Times cover alumnus, McKenna was a defining voice of the psychedelic community through the ...