Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the "doubling the square" problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square, the student doubled the ...

The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians? MIT Technology Review’s What’s ...

Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. The question was proposed by Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya in 1917. It sounds simple: How can you ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google DeepMind has used artificial intelligence to all but match the geometry problem-solving skills of the ...

It is important to know properties of these shapes as questions will often involve knowing angle and length properties. For example, remember that each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60°. When a ...

It is important to know properties of these shapes as questions will often involve knowing angle and length properties. For example, remember that each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60°. When a ...

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We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI. When you purchase ...