Mathematics

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to decision-making can achieve

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment

For decades, mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

Take apart the grid in this math puzzle

Scientists have designed a new kind of paradoxical shape

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets

An elegant mix of math and gravity powers the Artemis II “free return” trajectory from Earth to the moon and back

You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moon—or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss

Decades of data have suggested the universe is flat, much like an infinite plane. But a new analysis reveals deep flaws in that simple conclusion

A start-up has surprised the scientific community with a breakthrough: translating a modern proof into a programming language for verification using AI. But not everyone is celebrating

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.