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Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

She was once a rising figure in British theatre—until she vanished without warning. No body. No farewell. Just unanswered ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

A teacher has gone viral after sharing how one of her students cleverly tricked her to use a new viral slang expression, under the guise of checking the answer to a math question. Threads user Jenn ...

This week Philadelphia’s Art Alliance put models and plans for 15 U.S. war memorials on display. The work of well-established firms selected by the U.S. Battle Monuments Commission,* they would be ...

Investigators revisit Amber Tuccaro’s disappearance, tracing her final phone call and the unanswered questions that remain.

The Navier–Stokes partial differential equation was developed in the early 19th century by Claude-Louis Navier and George ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...