An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

Solving the enterprise data optimization problem

Most organizations retain vast amounts of useless data, driving up costs and undermining governance without strategic ...
CNBCTV18

Richard Feynman's handwritten notes on 'optimal stopping problem' decoded

Richard Feynman notes on the optimal stopping problem decoded, revealing how we decide when to stop exploring options and ...
Phys.org

Quantum computers can solve combinatorial optimization problems more easily than conventional methods, research shows

The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin ...
The New York Times

A Mathematician Who Makes the Best of Things

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the ...
Communications of the ACM

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...
The Shillong Times

Researchers decipher Feynman’s notes on solution to ‘optimal stopping problem’

R esearchers have deciphered theoretical physicist Richard Feynman’s handwritten notes on a solution to the ‘optimal stopping problem’-such as when to stop ordering dishes a ...