#Mathematics

Medieval mathematics was a highly personal craft, with knowledge of mathematics and methods being treated as a liability (for better and for worse) and having that knowledge was treated as secret

A positive vision for the future of mathematics: how our institutions can deepen human understanding as AI transforms mathematical research.

[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …

The Millennium Prize Problems were unveiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) at a meeting in Paris in 2000 to celebrate “The Universality of Mathematical Thought”.…

AI has made groundbreaking progress in pure math in the past few months. That raises the question: how can we responsibly use AI tools to augment human understanding of mathematics?

The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

I'm currently returning to Toronto from a summit on the future of mathematics, at OpenAI. Sebastian Bubeck asked me to talk a bit about the future we'd all like to avoid, where humans are mathematically disempowered.…

Hannah Fry is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). She joined the University of Cambridge in January 2025, becoming the first person ever to hold the role.

It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexam…

Over the years, mathematicians, logicians and computer scientists have developed various calculi. If you have a background in computer science, you’ve likely heard of the lambda calculus, a m…

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill.

Problems that defeated human mathematicians for decades are now solved, but for whose benefit?

By Kimberly P. Hadaway, Pamela E. Harris, Kimberly J. Harry, Lucy Martinez, Miriam G. Norris, and Rebecca Patrias

Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses humanity's long-time fascination with ginormous numbers—and what this obsession reveals about us.

From Dev Community: The 10 free books I recommend to every engineer learning ML math (and why order matters)

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects.…

I've been having an interest in math research particularly how mathematicians solve difficult problems as well as their contributions to various fields to expand our understanding on modern mathematics.…