Mathematics

The new math intern: How AI can be a mathematician’s best assistant

Mathematics, Technology / /

Mathematics is hard, even for artificial intelligence (AI). So, when Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry2 achieved the impressive feat of solving 4 out of 6 problems at the International Math Olympiad (IMO), mathematicians began revisiting an old question: can AI do mathematical research? Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los […]

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Hole in the heart of math: Gödel’s incompleteness theorem and the fallacy of truth  

Mathematics / /

In 1931, at just 25 years old, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel shattered the foundations of mathematics. In 300 BCE, the philosopher Euclid developed proofs, which are logical arguments mathematicians use to justify how a statement about numbers is true. Axioms, which are irrefutable, are basic statements that are used to form the foundations of these

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