A few weeks ago I was listening to one of my favorite radio shows, BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. It's about as adult-contemporary as a podcast gets: a roundtable of British academics talking about one ...

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that computer science is gradually returning to its core foundations of mathematics and ...

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas agrees that AI is shifting software engineering away from manual coding and back towards mathematics, physics and systems thinking, as tech leaders debate AI’s impact ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Erdos, explores what researchers call autoformalization, the process of converting traditional mathematical proofs into formats machines can verify using tools such as Lean and Coq.

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

How many atoms are there in the observable universe? Current estimates point to a number we would write as 1 followed by 80 zeroes, or 10 80. If you peered inside each of these atoms and counted their ...