What’s So Imaginary About Complex Numbers?
Understanding complex numbers through pairs, rotations, and a different multiplication.Continue reading on Towards AI »
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Self-Adjoint Matrices and the Geometry Behind Symmetry
What does the adjoint tell us about a linear transformation?Continue reading on Towards AI »
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A ‘Mathpocalypse’ is freaking out cyber and finance experts. Should you be worried?
New findings from OpenAI revealed its agents are math geniuses—leading prominent figures to warn public encryption is in danger.
Fortune AI4 min read
OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet
OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.
TechCrunch4 min read
Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code
The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.
New York Times AI2 min read
OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math discoveries in major scientific milestone
OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses.
SiliconANGLE3 min readQuoting Jake Boggan
I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields.
Simon Willison1 min read
Eigenvectors Are the Directions a Matrix Can’t Rotate
What do they tell us about a linear transformation?Continue reading on Towards AI »
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OpenAI Dumps 377 New Math Results on GitHub, Publishes Hand-Wringing Blog Post
If you're a professional mathematician, you might not be thrilled.
Gizmodo — AI3 min read
OpenAI’s largest mathematics release tackles 4,000 problems with Lean-checked proofs
OpenAI has released a large collection of mathematical research produced by an internal frontier model,...
Interesting Engineering - Robotics3 min read
Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increasingly large numbers.
Simon Willison2 min readFractal Recursion, Bounded Infinity, and Adapted systems
What fractals, loss landscapes, and dynamical stability reveal about adaptation under constraint
Towards AI16 min read
We may be the last generation of mathematical heroes
A generation from now, the mathematician may no longer be anyone’s idea of a hero. In our era, physicists and mathematicians have had a certain hero charm. AI is taking it away, and fast. I should know. I’m one of those heroes. For most of history, math was for nerds.
Fast Company — Technology5 min read
A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality
For a seemingly pointless exercise, these odd shapes can actually serve a practical purpose.
Gizmodo — AI3 min read
AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet
Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified the proof of a theorem relating to prime numbers—colloquially referred to as the “246 theorem”—for the first time using the company’s AI system AxiomProver.In formal…
IEEE Spectrum AI4 min read
How to Write Math Equations in Google Docs
Math equations are a critical part of academic papers, research reports, and technical documentation. While LaTeX is widely used for professional typesetting, Google Docs offers a robust set of features for inserting and formatting math equations and...
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