Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely valuable. getty In today's column, I ...

Timothy Gowers calls OpenAI's ten solved problems extraordinarily impressive, then spends 4,000 words on what they are not. The famous results were counterexamples rather than theorems. One of them, ...

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent ...