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In the past two decades, computers have gradually toppled human champions in games of perfect information. It mastered checkers, then chess (Deep Blue), and finally, the profoundly complex game of Go ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

Mathematics usually feels universal, certain, and free from drama. Numbers don’t pick sides, theories don’t hold grudges, and proofs don’t belong to nations, at least, that’s the idea. But math ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

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