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Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little ...

ENRICO Yambao, an assistant professor at the College of Science and former chair of the Department of Mathematics and Physics ...

Patricia was the assistant food editor at Southern Living and worked with the Southern Living food team from 2006-2022. She contributed to articles about food, gardening, and pets. Convenience foods ...

Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 ...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted ...

Re “Cambridge Public Schools’ algebra problem” (Letters, July 20): One of the two letters in Monday’s edition asks why students are still being forced to take Algebra I. There are two issues: One is ...

Researchers showed each giraffe the contents of several containers, which held varying numbers of carrots, then added extra pieces to one of them. Afterward, the animal would choose a container to get ...

Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses. Scientists say the numerical skills displayed by zoo giraffes may help ...