When the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics went live on 2 June 2026, things moved quickly. The ...

More than 1,200 years ago, in the intellectual heart of Abbasid Baghdad, a Persian scholar quietly reshaped how humans understand numbers, problems and logic. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those efforts have been just that: experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that, ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

As AI systems have advanced rapidly, with large language models (LLMs) at the center, every tech executive has experienced their limits—when AI systems struggle with complex problem-solving, produce ...

In most cultures, food is more than just sustenance — it's a celebration of community, identity, and history. Food is deeply woven into traditions that are more important than filling an empty stomach ...

Symbolic regression has a crucial role in modern scientific research owing to its capability of discovering concise and interpretable mathematical expressions from data. A key challenge lies in the ...

Neural networks aren’t the only game in artificial intelligence, but you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise after the hot streak sparked by ChatGPT’s arrival in 2022. That model’s abilities, ...