Actually, no. Neuroscience shows you tend to be at your most creative when you’re not trying to be creative. Actually, you’re at your most creative when you’re not trying to do anything at all.

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a ...

The Navier-Stokes problem concerns equations of fluid motion, illustrated here as dye moving in liquid. Kterletska via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 The Navier-Stokes problem, a famous theoretical ...

OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the ...

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. By Cade Metz OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

Many enterprise cybersecurity conversations still focus primarily on prevention technologies. While these controls remain critically important, CISOs today recognize that one of the most effective ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

A receptionist at a doctor's office announces new privacy laws to patients in the waiting room. "Starting today," she says, "patients won't be called by their names to protect their identity." The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...