There are suggestions that AI could revolutionize research in science and math in the coming years, but humans could still ...

Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...

You have a burning thought on the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function or a hankering to work on Yang-Mills theory. Or maybe an irrepressible inkling about quadratic residues is on your mind.

Tao was asked about the impact of AI on the field of math, because he’d recently posted some scathing comments about OpenAI’s latest and supposedly greatest GPT o1 model. Touted as the first model ...

AI isn’t taking the real test: GPT models “solving” International Math Olympiad (IMO) problems are often operating under very different conditions—rewrites, retries, human edits. Tao’s warning: Fields ...

The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...

Carina Hong, 24, raised $64 million to build an AI mathematician that discovers new theorems and solves century-old problems.

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that eigenvalues are the magnitudes of eigenvectors. In fact, eigenvalues are scalars that are multiplied with eigenvectors. This ...

Omar Yaghi, UCLA professor of chemistry, and Terence Tao, UCLA professor of mathematics, are among "The Brilliant 10" scientists honored by Popular Science magazine in the October 2006 issue. UCLA is ...